He strikes again.

3 weeks. He left it alone for 3 weeks.

3 weeks ago, I caught him in the process of attempting to tear down Bryce’s memorial yet again. I scared him away with my car’s headlights and the sound of my motor revving. I’m not going to say that I followed him. I’d never say such a thing.

We know where he’s taking everything. He’s done this multiple times. I have left signs. I have a camera out there. I have moved it multiple times to attempt to get his face on camera and he seems to evade it every fucking time. The day I caught him in person, it was super dark and he was wearing a dark hoodie with the hood up so I couldn’t really see his face.

This is fucking ridiculous. If it is the man who hit him or someone associated with him…ripping down the memorial won’t change anything that happened. Even if Bryce was the one to blame, I would have a memorial up. I don’t have that dude’s name out there. I have not publicly outed him for the accident.

No one else but someone associated with him would be doing this. This is direct targeting and I’m fed up. Mama and the riding group big sis have been posting in local Facebook groups all day to spread the word to the community in the hopes that it reaches him or his family. I made a public Facebook post for people to share across the area. I contacted local news agencies with the story and have already had some return my emails so I am hopeful that I can get the story in the media like we did with the accident itself and riding safely.

This is the post I have been sharing today:

Hello, Surprise neighbors.

This is my son’s memorial at the corner of Bell and Ave of the Arts. He was taken in a motorcycle accident on December 23rd.

Someone keeps stealing the memorial and destroying it in the middle of the night. It has happened 4 times now in the past 10 weeks since we put it up.

To the man doing this:

Sir. We are already dealing with immense grief and pain. This was my son. He was only 19 years old. He had his entire life ahead of him. A longtime girlfriend. So many siblings between my home and his dad’s home. A niece. A huge riding family. He was loved as I’m sure you are by your family. I have not posted your name there. I have not outed you. Your guilt from what happened will not be fixed by removing the memorial for a 19-year-old young man.

His friends, other family, and I go there often to reflect on him.

Show some respect, please.

Have some honor.

This is a public plea to please just stop.

Leave my Bryce’s memorial alone.

Neighbors, thank you for your time.

From a grieving mama

This isn’t being done by the city, or the property management for the shopping center, it isn’t teenagers or the homeless. It is a single man. I have seen him.

We are already dealing with immense pain and grief. I am already helping my 12-year-old deal with a horrible loss. I am already trying to learn how to survive and carry on with a heart that is no longer whole. And someone who has such little empathy to do such a horrible thing not once but FOUR times is doing nothing but making it worse. Doing something like this shows a remarkable lack of empathy. A childishness. If it is the person who was involved in the accident, it shows a lack of remorse as well.

Waking up this morning and seeing that it had been removed made my heart hurt. But it was replaced with anger. I went to where it was all taken last time and jumped my ass right into that dumpster and retrieved it all. It was all back up by dawn with the help of Bryce’s big sister. I wasn’t quiet during that dumpster diving either. Slamming shit around. Revving my engine. My engine is loud. I wanted the complex to wake up. I wanted HIM to hear me. To know I was there. That he didn’t win.

And he didn’t win. He won’t win.

He doesn’t know this family. Both sides of my son’s family are so fucking stubborn. For anyone who knew Bryce, you know how stubborn he was. He got it from both of us. My side. His dad’s side. His chosen family. His friends. We are all stubborn as fuck and we will protect that boy, even now that he isn’t here. And that means putting that fucking memorial every time that asshole rips it down.

You’d think he’d have learned by now.