Members of the community surround the family at a candlelight vigil held in memory of 6-year-old Zackery Bryant at the Rock Spring Athletic Association on Saturday.
Parents, teammates and friends surrounded the family to show their support during a candlelight vigil held in memory of 6-year-old Zackery Bryant at the Rock Spring Athletic Association.“Lord, it amazes me that there’s faces out here that I don’t even know, yet we come together, Lord. I’m just asking you to bless this, that you’ll be glorified through this, Lord,” prayed Matt Kirby.
Tears flowed freely Saturday evening at the Rock Spring Athletic Association baseball fields on Highway 95 in Walker County, Ga. Several hundred people, including family, friends, teammates and community members, gathered at a memorial erected at home plate on Field One to pay their respects to 6-year-old Zackery Maximus Gage Bryant.
“Lord, even though we don’t understand it … you tell us in your word that you’re not the author of confusion, but of peace. And, Lord, I just ask that you give this family peace, Lord, that only you can give,” continued Kirby, whose children play in the athletic association.
Early Monday morning, Zackery got off the school bus at Chattanooga Valley Elementary School. Instead of walking into the school, he stood in front of the bus. The driver didn’t see him, and the boy was hit and killed.
Investigators said driver Joel Lee Hitchcox, 50, of Flintstone, Ga., was not at fault. The crowd prayed for him, too, and for the school employees and emergency workers who responded to the tragic accident.