WILMINGTON, NC : Mother of toddler killed in crash: 'He was everything to me on Tuesday, 1st November 2016

Many knew Mason Richardson for his beautiful eyes and grin that was utterly contagious. He loved goldfish crackers and car rides, but Tuesday morning he did not survive a wreck caused by a driver who was allegedly high.

Mason’s mother, Alexandria Williams, gave birth to him on Nov. 4, 2013. He would have celebrated his third birthday Friday.

“The moment they laid him on my chest, everything just felt right. The moment he peed on my belly,” a tickled Williams recalled. “He was great. He was beautiful. He was everything to me.”

From the moment he arrived, Mason’s tiny shoes could barely contain his adventurous spirit.

“He loves to play, but he could also be very devilish!” Williams explained.

“Sassiest thing you’d ever meet!” Kayla Parker, Mason’s aunt, said. “He hated pants, hated pants. Never wanted to wear them.”

Mason was fascinated with nature, and in true boyish fashion would try to touch whatever caught his eye.

“If he saw something crawling, running, wriggling he would try to grab it and take it with him,” Williams described. “Very gross. But he’s a boy!”

And like most boys, Mason had a fascination with superheroes -- Batman in particular.



Much like Batman had Robin as his sidekick, Mason often played sidekick to his older brother, Jordan. They spent hours playing together.

“He followed me everywhere,” Jordan remembered.

Everything in the room Jordan and Mason shared is exactly how it was before Tuesday: Batman sheets waiting to be turned down for a bed time story, plastic guardians at the door, and Mason’s Halloween costume waiting to be tucked away.

“Every time you say ‘Mason’s not going to come back baby, he’s with God and the angels in heaven,’ [Jordan] looks and you and he puts his head down and he pouts and he cries,” Williams said. “And then he goes back to playing by himself, but that’s something he has not done for almost three years.”

Jordan and his mother now have two guardian angels to watch over them. Williams lost her very first child, Devin, the day before she went into labor.

“That was traumatic. I basically had to give birth. Hold him and say goodbye and plan a funeral the same day. So to be doing this all over again, but this time I got to fall in love with this little boy’s smile, his face, the sound of voice, the touch of his hand, just the way he says ‘momma,’ the ways he says ‘Batman.’ Getting to know a child and lose a child, I’ve never experienced until now and I feel so much pain,” Williams said as she fought back tears.

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Mother of toddler killed in crash: 'He was everything to me