It’s been nearly 3½ years since Eli Mitchell’s life was tragically taken. While riding his bicycle to the store, eager to use the new debit card his mother had just given him, the West Jordan boy was struck by a drunk driver at 13 years old.
The pain of losing his grandson hasn’t eased in the months since then. Glendon Mitchell said that if anything, the anguish has only gotten worse for him, Eli’s parents and his family.
“It would be foolish to tell you it’s been an easy journey,” he told the Deseret News, “Eli was always one who looked out for others. He was sensitive to those who were maybe being picked on or bullied or left out. And even if he didn’t know them, he would reach out and try to do what he could to alter the situation.”…