Courtney Klein

We were living in Ohio.

I got a phone call.

I actually had multiple phone calls.

I remember laying down to take a nap with the kids and I woke up and my phone had just been blown, like just blowing up.

And I don't even remember who I chose to call back first.

And before I could even finish anything, my mom was calling me again.

And she said that something had happened.

She needed me to remain calm because she's going to need somebody.

And I remember, like, my heart sinking into my stomach, like...

he's gotten into a drunk accident or something like that.

Like never would I have guessed that this was the situation, but above our house was a, is a gas station where like, you know, I grew up in a small town.

You cannot go to that gas station and not see everyone you went to high school with.

And my brother worked there on and off.

He currently works there now.

And my dad had went up there, I think to get alcohol.

He must've been drunk when he got there.

And he went in, he bought what he wanted to buy.

He went back out to his truck

I'm not sure what was going through his mind, but he must have been in the middle of a breakdown and he decided, I'm going to commit suicide.

So he had his gun in his truck and he had his gun to his head.