Nine-year-old Mayzee Wilson was coming home from Lidgerwood Elementary School with her mom’s boyfriend on Sept. 22 when a truck ran a stop sign, knocking the pair off his Harley Davidson.
Mayzee’s mom, Bethany Freeland, always checks her daughter and William “Billy” Cochran’s location when the two go riding together. She had only taken her eyes off of her phone for a moment when she got a call from Cochran’s cell — a woman telling her that there had been an accident. Freeland, 21 weeks pregnant, rushed to the scene.
“All I could think about — I’m processing where the motorcycle is laying at in the intersection and how far away they were from it,” Freeland, 29, said. “At first, all these people were saying she was screaming and he was screaming, and that’s awful that they had to hear that, but when I got there it seemed like she was so calm in the moment, and I was so worried, and all he could say to me is he’s so sorry.”…