Family of fatal car crash victim finds forgiveness in wake of tragedy

Xyrjah Goldston entered a guilty plea in court Friday to vehicular homicide and assault.

But the parents who lost their little boy the day of that crash last July, say they don’t want her to spend any more time here at the criminal justice center.

Every time Raphael Hameed looks at his right knee… He remembers all he’s lost.

“I didn’t have a warning,” he said.

He was walking with his son, Ishaq, when Goldston, who was speeding, lost control and ran into them.

“I get flashbacks of coming to on the ground, unable to move and hollering out ‘Where’s my son? And what happened to me?'” he said.

Raphael survived, but Ishaq didn’t, turning into a parent’s worst nightmare.

“I’ll never see him in the flesh anymore,” Goldston said.

Something Goldston’s friends have said will haunt her.

“No matter what she does, I know she’s going to always feel bad about this,” said Kayla Adams in July, 2014. “She is a good mother. I wish she would have made different choices and slowed down.”

And months later, instead of hate and anger, they found forgiveness.

“We’re feeling pretty well actually,” said Heidi Hameed, Ishaq’s mother.

They hold no animosity towards Goldston. In fact, they call the crash a mistake.

“I want something beautiful to come out of this. I just don’t want to see a separation,” Hameed said.

Hoping she gets to spend more time with her child, than she will in jail.

Goldston will be sentenced May 26, the Hameeds hope the judge will give her a probationary sentence.