Mother Reveals Texts Son Sent Her Before He Was Killed by a Tornado

Teenager Jeffrey Hunter was killed by a tornado in Vilonia, Arkansas last weekend, and with his final moments he texted his mother good-bye.

“I have a text on my phone as the tornado was hitting ‘Goodbye mama,'” Hunter’s mother Regina Wood told KNWA.

Hunter was hunkered down in a bathroom as his mother updated him by text as to the tornado’s path. He knew it was headed straight for him.

“First he said mama, I’m so scared,” Wood said. “He knew how bad it was, these say it’s going to be a direct hit.”

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Hunter was killed moments later; his body discovered by a neighbor who had survived the same twister; the tornado killed several people in Hunter’s neighborhood. Fifteen people were killed in Arkansas by last weekend’s tornado outbreak.

Hunter had been with his father and stepmother, both of whom were severely injured.

His mother prized the fact that he had taken his final moments to say goodbye. “That was the most precious thing a son could do for a mother,” she said.

Watch the segment below, via KNWA:

[h/t KNWA]

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