Kevin Mays was standing in his kitchen when he got the call that changed his life forever.
It was his sister, Shawna Juve: She, along with their mother and Juve’s husband and son, had been in a wreck in March 2025. It looked bad for their mother, Erma “Jeanie” Mays.
Within five minutes, Mays was at the intersection of North Locust Grove and East Franklin roads in Meridian. There, he told the Idaho Statesman, he saw his sister and nephew being loaded into ambulances. And his mother, he said, holding back tears, was on the ground “behind a freakin’ electrical box.”
His sister, during an interview last month, finished explaining for him that their mother was being worked on by first responders, who had pulled her out of the vehicle. Mays was told to go to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center…