Lawson neighborhood honors household of teen killed in crash recently

LAWSON, Mo. - - The Lawson, Missouri neighborhood is remembering a 17-year-old kid who was killed in a car crash one week ago.

Carson Robinette was driving with a 15-year-old boy who was life flighted to the medical facility in severe condition.

It's Homecoming Week for the Lawson Cardinals, and on Friday afternoon, the town collected for a parade.

" We've had people appearing to our door with breakfast and with cards, and it's just very humbling," Carson's mama Amanda stated in an interview with BNN Friday.

Amanda says the school district asked if both she, her partner Keith, and their 5 kids would be a part of the town's homecoming parade.

" It's been a week today, so it's actually tough," Amanda continued. "It so takes place that the parade arrive at the one-week death of Carson and the accident with Lennon."

After BNN's interview with the Robinettes, the whole household decreased to get ready for the parade.

" Lawson's a special place. We wrap our arms around everybody," Superintendent Michael Stephenson stated in an interview with BNN Friday.

The Robinette household had actually just relocated to the city in July, so Carson had actually only remained in the district a month. Still, his household, new to the district, was offered an area in the parade.

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" Really it was never ever a concern of if they were or weren't," Stephenson reacted when asked what the thought process was for allowing his family to be in the parade. It was suitable in the reality that they are a community member as well, and we simply wanted them to have the opportunity to reveal themselves, how they feel like they need to do that in order to grieve, and to share, and to inform a story, and to ideally help other kids."

The parade started at 2 p.m. Friday. Throughout it, Carson's 5 sis and siblings rode in the bed of the truck he always dealt with. It's the exact same truck lots of students from Lawson and other schools in Clay County have transferred the previous week.

" The community here, you can't surpass it," Keith said. "The outreach of them has actually been incredible, terrific, loving. Like they don't understand us, but they understand we're a part of the neighborhood, which's what I believe is the most modest part about the entire scenario."

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