00:00The family of the Georgia high school teacher killed when a student prank went horribly wrong
00:04is speaking out. Laura Hughes, the widow of 40-year-old Jason Hughes, is also a teacher at
00:10the same school where her husband taught. She told the New York Times that her husband loved
00:14the student pranksters and was waiting not to angrily confront them, but to join them in the
00:19annual tradition. I don't know, somehow this just makes the tragedy even more upsetting. Hughes
00:26slipped on a wet curb and fell into the street just as the teens were making their getaway.
00:30The driver of the pickup truck that ran him over, Jaden Wallace, has been charged with vehicular
00:34homicide and faces up to 15 years in prison. Now, all the teens were charged with littering
00:38and criminal trespassing, and they tried to render aid to their teacher until paramedics arrived.
00:43The Post's national reporter, Georgia Worrell, has been following the story, and she updated me on
00:47the latest Monday night. Hughes' widow wants the DA to drop those charges against all of the teenagers,
00:54and she told the New York Times, quote, this is a terrible tragedy, and our family is determined
00:59to prevent a separate tragedy from occurring, ruining the lives of these students. Laura continued,
01:05this would be counter to Jason's lifelong dedication of investing in the lives of these children.
01:11So when we called the local DA's office today, they weren't commenting on whether they were weighing
01:17Laura Hughes' response to their charges. So that situation is still developing, and we'll see
01:25what happens here in the next couple of days. But what we do know is the students at the local
01:32high
01:32school that Hughes taught at, today they heartwarmingly held a memorial in his honor,
01:39and the superintendent for that school district told the Post that he anticipated many more efforts
01:47and events will be held in the educator's honor here in the next coming days.
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