Posted 12:29 pm Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Community Mourns Loss Of 3 Best Friends
KYTX CBS 19 VIDEO
From KYTX CBS 19
RUSK COUNTY -- Rows of pictures of three young men who spent their lives side by side.
Asiarae Garza is Tomas and Nico's sister and said the only thing keeping her going, is the special bond between her family and the Winfrey family.
"I don't think you would catch one of them without the other," Garza said. "If one of them's not there they were on the way to get them. They were just always together."
Hundreds gathered Monday night at the visitation.
"It's very stressful," Garza said. "One minute we're crying, the next minute we don't know what to think. It's very hard. We've known all of each other since I was born. They're like family."
Zachary Coleman was never too far from the three boys either. Coleman said he has known Blake, Tomas and Nico since he was 5 years old. He said the three boys played football together for Carlisle High School and were inseparable.
"They were basically like brothers in a sense," Coleman said. "Outside of those three, I'd be the next one closest.
Nico, he was a very eccentric person, he was smart but eccentric, very goofy acting. Then Blake, he always had a bright personality, always brightened people up and Tomas not everybody knew the real Tomas, he leaves behind a 6-month-old son Rayden.
Regardless of how each person knew these young men there's no question that they each made an enormous impact on those around them.
"It's about my brothers and Blake, which, he is my brother," Garza said. "I just want people to know that they were great kids."
Since the boys were all so close, they are being buried together, right next to each other.
The funeral was this morning at the Spence Cemetery off Highway 42.
RUSK COUNTY -- Rows of pictures of three young men who spent their lives side by side.
Asiarae Garza is Tomas and Nico's sister and said the only thing keeping her going, is the special bond between her family and the Winfrey family.
"I don't think you would catch one of them without the other," Garza said. "If one of them's not there they were on the way to get them. They were just always together."
Hundreds gathered Monday night at the visitation.
"It's very stressful," Garza said. "One minute we're crying, the next minute we don't know what to think. It's very hard. We've known all of each other since I was born. They're like family."
Zachary Coleman was never too far from the three boys either. Coleman said he has known Blake, Tomas and Nico since he was 5 years old. He said the three boys played football together for Carlisle High School and were inseparable.
"They were basically like brothers in a sense," Coleman said. "Outside of those three, I'd be the next one closest.
Nico, he was a very eccentric person, he was smart but eccentric, very goofy acting. Then Blake, he always had a bright personality, always brightened people up and Tomas not everybody knew the real Tomas, he leaves behind a 6-month-old son Rayden.
Regardless of how each person knew these young men there's no question that they each made an enormous impact on those around them.
"It's about my brothers and Blake, which, he is my brother," Garza said. "I just want people to know that they were great kids."
Since the boys were all so close, they are being buried together, right next to each other.
The funeral was this morning at the Spence Cemetery off Highway 42.
