'It's not a pain to wish on anyone': Family remembers Eden crash victim Will Evans (2025)

COUNTY. CHRIS, WHO DID YOU SPEAK WITH? KENNY I SPOKE WITH WILL EVANS BROTHER FRITZ ON CAMERA TODAY. WILL’S FATHER, GLENN, CAN’T TALK ABOUT HIS SON WITHOUT TEARING UP. WILL WAS A LOVING SON, BROTHER AND FATHER. HIS FAMILY SAYS HE LOVED BEING A LINEMAN AND HELPING OTHERS. THAT IS CRUSHED US. IT. HOW DO YOU DESCRIBE THE MOMENT YOU FIND OUT YOUR BROTHER IS GONE? FRITZ EVANS AND HIS FATHER, GLENN, WERE ON THEIR WAY TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER HEARING THAT WILL WAS IN A CRASH. THEY WERE ALMOST THERE WHEN THEY GOT THE CALL. WILL DIDN’T MAKE IT. IT WAS A LONG, LONG, LONG CAR RIDE BACK HOME. SO THEN WE HAD TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IN THE WORLD WOULD WE BE DOING? BECAUSE. NO ONE, NO ONE’S PREPARED FOR THAT KIND OF THING. FRITZ WAS CLOSE TO HIS BROTHER. HE REMEMBERS FISHING WITH WILL AND HIS DAD AT RANDLEMAN LAKE. HE SAYS WILL WAS LARGER THAN LIFE AND LOVED HELPING OTHERS. THE EVANS FAMILY WANTED EVERYONE TO SEE THIS PICTURE OF WILL ON HIS FOUR WHEELER. HE WAS A FAMILY MAN AND HE AND HE WAS ALSO. HE WAS THERE FOR PEOPLE. HE HE WAS ONE OF THE HE WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE YOU’D HAVE ON YOUR SPEED DIAL WHENEVER YOU NEEDED SOMEONE MOST TO GET THINGS DONE, OR IF YOU JUST NEED SOMEONE TO, TO TALK TO. HE WAS THAT GUY. WILL ALSO ADORED HIS THREE YEAR OLD SON, COLSON. HIS SON IS GOING TO HAVE TO GROW UP WITHOUT A DADDY, AND I’M GOING TO TRY AND BE THERE BEST I CAN FOR FOR MY NEPHEW, BECAUSE THAT’S THE ONLY PIECE OF MY BROTHER I GOT LEFT. THE EVANS FAMILY SAYS PLENTY OF TEARS ARE BEING SHED AS THEY REMEMBER WILL, AND TRY TO PROCESS WHAT HAS HAPPENED. IT’S A SHAME AND IT’S NOT A PAIN. I REALLY WISH ON ANYONE BUT WE’RE WE’RE TRYING TO WRAP EVERYTHING UP AND IT’S AND IT’S NOT AND IT’S NOT GETTING EASIER. THE FAMILY IS STILL FINALIZING FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR WILL. THE EVANS FAMILY SAYS THEY’RE PRAYING FOR THE OTHER VICTIMS AND THE FAMILIES INVOLVED IN THIS TRAGEDY. LIVE IN THE STU