TREAT Williams’ family has made their first public comments since the tragic and sudden death of the actor.
Williams died at the age of 71 after he and driver Ryan Koss crashed into each other in Vermont.
At a hearing on Friday, the actor’s son Gill Williams said, “I do forgive you, and I hope that you forgive yourself.” This was shared by the Las Vegas Sun.
“I wish you hadn’t killed my dad.” That was something I had to say.
He talked about how important his father was to his family while wearing his father’s jacket.
He said, “It’s very hard for this to happen because of someone’s carelessness.”
Williams’s wife Pam and daughter Ellie did not go to the hearing, but they wrote statements that were read out loud in court.
It was Pam who said, “Our lives will never be the same, our family has been torn apart, and there is a huge hole that can’t be filled.”
Ellie said in her letter that she hoped Koss would understand and forgive her one day.
She said, “I will never get to feel my father’s hug again, get his advice again, meet my future husband, have him walk me down the aisle, meet my babies, or have him cry when I name my first son after him.”
In his guilty plea, Koss said that he killed Williams by crashing his SUV into Williams’ motorcycle.
There was a report from the Vermont State Police about the accident.
“The crash occurred at about 4:53 pm Monday on Vermont Route 30 just north of Morse Hill Road when a southbound 2008 Honda Element attempted to turn left into a parking lot.”
“Initial investigation indicates the Element stopped, signaled a left turn, and then turned into the path of a northbound 1986 Honda VT700c motorcycle operated by Williams.”
Williams was badly hurt when he was thrown off the bike.
After that, he was taken to the Albany Medical Center in Albany, New York, but there, they said he was dead.
After the accident, Koss called Williams’ wife and said he was to blame.
Koss told a court in Vermont on Friday that he was guilty.
He got a one-year deferred sentence, had his license taken away, and was asked to take part in a community restorative justice program.
Koss told the court, “I’m here to say sorry and take responsibility for this terrible accident.”
Koss first said he wasn’t guilty, which could have led to 15 years in prison.
