RANDOLPH COUNTY, Ind. (WISH) – An Indiana woman is coping with multiple tragedies that have hit in recent months.
Ashley Richardson’s son died in February, and now she’s lost her house and one of her pets.
On Wednesday, severe weather destroyed her mobile home.
One of her dogs also had to be euthanized.
Ashley Richardson cannot seem to catch a break.
Five weeks ago, Ashley Richardson’s 6-year-old son, Jase, died in his sleep.
“He was great, the love of my life,” Ashley Richardson son. “Just a happy 6-year-old.”
“He never knew a stranger,” Brittany Detzel, Ashley Richardson’s sister-in-law, added. “He never knew any pain of sadness. He was just a really happy kid.”
Now, Ashley Richardson is picking up the pieces of her destroyed home, but she’s not alone.
“Our couple of people turned into more people, which turned into more people, and literally in seven hours, they pretty much have everything cleared out and it’s crazy to me how everyone just shows up,” Chasity Richardson, another sister-in-law, said.
Ashley Richardson was trapped in her car during the storm.
“My windows busted out. The debris coming everywhere and hitting me, and I ducked my head and he got me out of my vehicle because I couldn’t open my door,” Ashley Richardson said.
To make matters worse, she could not find Jase’s ashes in the wreckage.
“His ashes were in the living room, and when the trailer got ripped out, his ashes were on top of my car,” Ashley Richardson said.
She knows Jase was there with her during this storm.
“I believe I was saved from my son and God,” Ashley Richardson said.
A neighbor and friend rescued Ashley Richardson from her car where she was trapped under the debris.
Unfortunately, her dog, Otis, did not make it.
“I couldn’t get to him. I couldn’t go back in and get him, and he was trapped underneath and I think it crushed him,” Ashley Richardson described. “But he was alive when they found him, and my sister-in-law and brother took him to the vet, and there was nothing they really could do.”
Ashley Richardson’s other dog, Mario, escaped.
An anonymous good Samaritan covered the cost to have Ashley Richardson’s dog, Otis, euthanized.
She wants to build her new home on the land where her old one once stood.
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