Ashley Flowers

He was a pro rider at 15, wearing out three dirt bikes a year.

Jennifer said that if it did not involve riding a dirt bike or a four-wheeler, Tripp wasn't interested.

It's part of the reason that he was homeschooled.

Now, when Tripp wasn't doing schoolwork or laying tile with the flooring company that he worked for, he was riding.

So the night of November 2nd, after he's riding with his siblings, he goes to a birthday party before then meeting up with his uncle and a family friend to ride around some more.

That's who Tripp was with when Sergeant Kinney approached him in the early morning hours of November 3rd, right before Tripp took off and the pursuit began.

But what deputies didn't know is that about 40 minutes after Tripp jumped off his ATV and ran into the woods, while they had deputies out actively looking for him,

He called his mom.

That call woke Jennifer and Gil up, but they were glad that it did because their son was asking for help.

Tripp told them that the police got his four-wheeler and asked if they could come pick him up.

And the way he said it didn't make it seem like police were chasing him or anything.

Maybe he downplayed it the way that like teenagers do.

But all Jennifer was hearing was that he was stranded and needed a ride.

So she was in the process of telling him that they would get dressed, they would head over.

And that's when Gil's phone started ringing.

And on the other end of his line was a deputy that he knew named Jason Bradshaw.

And Bradshaw was asking if Tripp was home, said that he and some other guys from the department were out there looking for him.

And I think maybe this is when the pieces started to click into place more.

And honestly, whatever was happening, this felt like a good thing since Gil knew Bradshaw.

Tripp knew Bradshaw, too.