Tyler's Story

In Loving Memory of
Billy Tyler Tscheschlog
October 7, 1988 - June 16, 2003

My son's story

On June 16 2003 these words ~ Your SON is Dead ~ will forever be etched in my mind.

My son Tyler was killed on his way home after leaving his friend's house next door, I didn't even know he had left the house. I thought he was up in his room, he knew we were going out. This was strange in itself because when I was here in the house Tyler wouldn't leave if I told him no, but yet he did and didn't say anything to me about leaving. Tyler came home from school at 3pm, I was in my bed laying down because I was not feeling well. As he came in he yelled MOM? he came into my room. We talked and laughed, he threw Victoria on the bed they had fun.

Tyler then asked if he could go next door to Mike's house, I said no, we were going out. He said BUT MOM! I said no buts! We laughed, he went into the kitchen got a snack. I remember for some reason him saying he didn't eat lunch that day. Marissa came home from school, we were all in the kitchen. Marissa had some money and was counting it. Tyler tried to help her. She was getting annoyed, so I told Tyler just to leave her alone, she was being cranky and told Marissa that Tyler was only trying to help. I went back to my bedroom. My oldest daughter, who was supposed to be in school that day but for some reason skipped and came to my house with Victoria, was going shopping. I got up to give her some money because I needed some things from the store. She went out to take the car seat I had out of my car. I was standing in the kitchen in front of the chair. She had Victoria in one seat outside and was putting the other into her car. As I stood there watching I heard this HORRIBLE THUD and then screeching of tires. My body froze. I don't know why because I didn't even know TYLER had left. BUT I KNEW IT WAS MY SON! DM screamed call 911 call 911!! She wasn't sure what had happened yet. For some reason without even knowing WHAT happened I knew that my son was dead.

I ran outside to see my son laying in the road right by our property, in disbelief. I was frozen in my stance. The driver that hit my son was standing in the middle of the road. I finally ran to where Tyler was and screamed ISN"T ANYONE GOING TO HELP HIM!? Two ladies came over and started CPR. What got me is WHY did I have to ask? & WHY IN GOD"S NAME DID PEOPLE DRIVE AROUND MY SON LIKE HE WAS A PIECE OF ROADKILL !!!? They didn't seem to care, it was like a freak show. It took the ambulance 20 minutes to get here WHEN we have one fire company right up the road from me and another 8 minutes away. I can NEVER understand that. The police were here in 10 minutes, another amazement since they are RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER! As they did CPR on Tyler, I SCREAMED BREATHE FOR ME BABY, BREATHE FOR YOUR MOM!
They took Tyler to the local hospital. They wouldn't let me get in the ambulance. We got there and a cold and non-caring Doctor said "IF IT'S ANY CONSOLATION HE DIED ON IMPACT!" I told him that it WAS NOT any consolation.
That was the day our nightmare began.

On June 18 "I KNOW HIM" these are other words that will forever stay in my mind!

I called the newspaper after reading their story on my son's death because the story they wrote was appalling.
They had no facts yet, they didn't do any investigation as of yet.

The paper said NO SPEEDING, NO TICKETS, THE CHILD VEERED INTO THE ROAD! I was a MAD MOM and I wanted to talk to the person that wrote the story. SHE would NOT get on the phone with me, so I then asked to speak to HER manager.. and I got Mr Ted Henderson the News Manager and this is how the conversation went:

Mr. Henderson : Mrs. Tremper I am so very sorry... I KNOW HIM!! came from the other end of the phone...

I said : HUH? WHO?
Mr Henderson: Robert, the guy that killed your son!

I said : HOW?

He said: I live over in Havre De Grace where he lives and saw him a week ago in a store, I told him he needed to
SLOW DOWN and STOP Speeding because he was going to KILL someone. He is known for speeding!

My heart sank and my words to him were... I WISHED HE HAD LISTENED TO YOU!

This is a beautiful and loving gift for Angel Tyler from my dear friend, Carol, mom to Angel Michael.

Robert S. killed my son on June 16, 2003, at 3:32PM, while my son was riding his bike home, doing 55 mph in a 30 mph zone. Robert S. HIT my son at that speed and killed him instantly. No braking, no swerving. He beeped his horn... That would only startled Tyler more than anything, and if Tyler was having problems only made the situation worse. Tyler was found to be 2 inches over the white line, after spending $3000 on my own for a reconstruction because the police never did any on where Tyler was hit, nor how far over on the road he was. They also said Robert S. was only doing 48 mph when my reconstructionist within 5 minutes said it was 55 mph. The one witness that only saw from behind said that Tyler's hand went up to his face. Did something get in it? Was there another car that came and blew something into his face? What I also don't understand is Robert S. had a half of a mile to SEE my son riding his bike, and then another quarter of a mile when Tyler started going towards the white line. He had time to do something but chose to do nothing. There was another witness that said Robert S. was on his cell phone. Distracted driving, speeding... They are the two MAIN causes for deaths on roads
and MY SON'S DEATH!

Tyler as his family always called him was born on October 7, 1988, at 3:15 PM. A beautiful brown haired little baby with cheeks you wanted to just PINCH! Like his nature, Tyler slept through the night BUT was always up at the crack of dawn. I guess even as a baby he just knew he had to LIVE each day to the fullest. Tyler is the Middle/oldest child. Very confusing place I guess to be. Tyler is my third child and his father's first. When he was little he was Daddy's little boy, as he grew up he became Mom's little man! There were times at the age of 14 would call me "MOMMY"!
and if he wanted to tick me off, Moma.

When I was pregnant with Tyler it was very touch and go. I had some complications with the pregnancy. I almost lost him,
so I think back now, should I be grateful for the 14 and a half years I had with him? or be mad I didn't get more?

I remember having to go and pick up my daughter from the school bus, they had my road blocked off. It was a dirt road and only one car could come up or down, I parked my car because I didn't want my daughter scared as she got off the bus but I also didn't want to lose Tyler. So I got out of my car cussing at these people working on the road. I talked to my belly saying "Tyler, now listen we have to get your sister off the bus and these idiots will not move, so baby hold on... I promise as soon as I get in the house I will lay down!" I got Dawnmarie off the bus, walked back up the road and got in the car. We got in the house and I laid on the couch sobbing. I did NOT want to lose my baby. For some reason this baby and I had a bond already and he wasn't even here yet. For the next few weeks I laid on the couch, sat on a chair to do dishes and just rested! In that time a song had come out by Phil Collins called "GROOVY KIND OF LOVE" and for some reason
that was my song with Tyler. I would sing it to him every day. We had a GROOVY kind of love!

Groovy Kind of Love

When I'm feeling blue, all I have to do
Is take a look at you, then I'm not so blue
When you're close to me, I can feel your heart beat
I can hear you breathing in my ear

Wouldn't you agree, baby you and me,
we've got a groovy kind of love

Any time you want to, you can turn me on to
Anything you want to, any time at all
When I kiss your lips, ooh I start to shiver
Can't control the quivering inside

Wouldn't you agree, baby you and me,
we've got a groovy kind of love, oho

When I'm feeling blue, all I have to do
Is take a look at you, then I'm not so blue
When I'm in your arms, nothing seems to matter
My whole world could shatter, I don't care

Wouldn't you agree, baby you and me,
we've got a groovy kind of love
We've got a groovy kind of love,
we've got a groovy kind of love
Oho, we've got a groovy kind of love

When Tyler was born, I almost lost my life. Another set of complications, but for some reason I was spared. And that was when my son came into my life at 8 lbs, 1 oz, 20 inches long. Billy Tyler Tscheschlog, the brown haired, brown eyed,
olive skinned complexion boy! Still don't know where the skin color came into play as neither of us have it.

Things were good life was good. I remember on the way home Billy saying to me " LET"S HAVE 10 MORE"
I looked at him and said "SURE... IF YOU HAVE THEM"!

Memories of Tyler:

I remember when Tyler was a baby, he would fall asleep anywhere. I close my eyes and remember that little butt in the air as he laid on the floor swaying it back and forth until he fell asleep. I always would sit there just watching him. As a baby he LOVED for me to take my finger and swirl it around his ear, stroke his face singing our song until he fell asleep.
That was our time. So our bonding got more intense.

One of the memories I have is taking Tyler and his sister Dawnmarie and his brother Thomas to a diner in Goshen NY when he was about 2. He loved to eat the pickles and lemons off of our plates. I thought, what a strange thing for a toddler to like. Then I thought back to all the things I craved when I was pregnant with him. OLIVES - I would eat them by the jar full. And ONIONS and Chili. So I guess these lemons and pickles were not far from what I craved. It was just so precious to see him take that lemon, suck it up and see the look on his face! And Olives... wow, I could not keep them in the house,
green, black, didn't matter, HE LOVED THEM!

When it was time for potty training this child did NOT want to hear about it. Billy and I went out and bought a potty chair. I brought it in and placed it on the floor still in the box. I thought, make a BIG HUGE deal out of this and maybe he accept it. Well, here we are making this big deal out of the potty, hooting and ooing over it. Took it out of the box, Tyler proceeded to take the potty and put it BACK in the box, thinking this was not going well, he then OPENED the front door
and threw the box outside.

Around the age of 5 when he started school, he LOVED going. Now let me set this up for you, we lived on TOP of this mountain... it was called Mountain Lodge Park, and we had the house almost to the top. The bus stop was at the bottom of the mountain. Well, one day Tyler was running a fever and he had afternoon kindergarten. He didn't want to hear he was sick. He grabbed his bookbag, coat and shoes and set off to WALK down the mountain to school. I was frantic. I had Marissa and Corey, Marissa being only 3 and Corey 1, it was hard for me to go after him. I called my neighbor and she stopped him in his tracks. He came back home, plopped himself on the couch and told me he hated me for not letting him go to school. I sat and talked to him and told him that he couldn't go because of the fever. That didn't matter he was MAD! So I got out his shrink-a-dink, and we sat and made DINOSAURS! HE loved to play and make them. That was the end of him being mad with me. That time.

How I wish that Tyler's LOVE of school would have lasted. He turned 10, and to get him up and out to school was a job. I remember one time he REFUSED to go to school, so I picked him up and put him outside in his pj's. Told him he could go
to school like that. Let me tell you he quickly changed his mind, came in and got dressed.

When Tyler was 13, he made friends here in MD with a boy named Will. I kept telling Tyler to go and talk to Will, he kept saying NAH. They became BEST friends, and I will never forget one day Tyler coming home with Will and Will had DUCK tape and boards all over him. Tyler said LOOK MOM I HAVE A ROBOT! OMG I laughed at them two. I had a picture but have no clue where it went. I am hoping that one day Tyler will lead me to it. Through the years there are so many memories that have stayed with me and lots that have escaped me.

I remember we had bought him a leather jacket. He looked so cute! this tiny little boy with a leather jacket.
HE LOVED that jacket. For his 14th birthday I bought him a new leather jacket.

Who he is:

Billy Tyler Tscheschlog is a caring, kind, soft hearted young man with a boyish charm, that had the ability to see the wonders
of nature and teach others about its beauty that the naked eye could not see. He taught people to appreciate life!

Though Tyler was not sports minded, he loved wrestling. In September he would have been a freshman in High School and had signed up for rassling {as he called it}, and the fishing {Fashion as he called it, goofing around, my oldest daughter always kidded him, thinking he was going to make dresses} club. He loved both equally. February of 2003 we had 24 inches of snow, Tyler and Corey were out in the snow wrestling. I looked out at them and enjoyed each moment, etching it in my mind, instead of yelling for them to stop. Maybe preparing me for what was to come in 4 months time.

Tyler ALWAYS had a smile on his face and if you were sad or angry and he was around he would always goof around
and instantly make you smile.

We would not see Tyler too often without a hat. Especially his NY YANKEE hat.

Corey his brother is his best friend.

Much of Tyler's life was spent outdoors around nature. From sunrise to sunset. He would always come home with a found treasure, a turtle, frog, crayfish, etc. Tyler felt one with any body of water and its creatures. He saw the mystical beauty
and treated each with respect.

Tyler's uncle took him on his one and only chartered fishing trip, and won the pool for catching the biggest fish.
He shared this story with me often and told me how it was the best time he ever had being out in the ocean!

This is who my son was a light hearted loving individual that LOVED LIFE and ALWAYS had a smile on his face.
Was a huge part of our family completed us. Now we are broken.

Forever I will wonder WHY?! Why do people have to speed? Especially on a residential road, especially when they see a pedestrian? WHY? and talking on the phone! If you're in a moving vehicle, why do people need to be TALKING on a phone! I see this going on EVERY day. I have read stories about people hitting others because they were talking on their Cell phones. It just makes NO SENSE to me. Please DO NOT SPEED and NEVER talk on your cell phone while your car is moving.
If it's that important then pull over! The life you save may be your own child's.

Tylersmom4ever

Last year 43,200 people were killed in Car crashes. These are the averages for the past 4 years...

16,972 were killed by drunk divers.
26,228 people killed by speeding, distracted driving {cell phone use, putting on make up, reading newspapers, eating, drinking, smoking, etc.} road rage, negligent driving, falling asleep at the wheel, etc.

This has got to stop. None are acceptable, more NON-alcohol crashes are killing people and nothing is being done. Our Government and Judicial system has showed us that if you want to get away with murder, do it the legal way, by getting into a crash caused by speeding distracted driver. I was taught when I went to drivers Ed that the pedestrian has the right of way. More and more are getting killed and there are no consequences. What happened to this law? As for seat belts... they are only a bandage to the problem. Our Government officials need to stop putting a bandage on this and FIX the problems.

Please visit this web site below to read up on what our government and highway departments need to do ~
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With Love for Angel Tyler
You have a lovely son
and May his soul rest with the Lord until you meet again
Ann, Laurasmom

I can look into the world and see you in every act of love.
Where once you were one, you are now many.
Although you are no longer here to safeguard them,
the things that you brought into the world - integrity and gladness and your capacity for love -
can never be driven out. I will make sure of that.

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A small gift from one grieving mother to another. A gift for Tyler and his family.
GEOFFREY P. EDWARDS

Dawn, We Will Love And Remember
Your Angel Tyler Always
10-7-88 ~ 6-16-03

Dear Dawn and ANGEL Tyler

Trying to drown
Your sorrow
In what GOD
Has given you
Trying to make
PEACE with GOD
As deep inside you
You know it wasn't
GOD'S fault at all
Your ANGEL Tyler
Was very special
And GOD needed him
I know you will see
Your ANGEL again Dawn
Please believe that

Written By Sue-Anne Aguilera~~~Lee'sMom
MY DEEPEST LOVE DAWN

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Here Are A Few To Add To Your Collection'

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