Bellatti crashed his speeding Mustang into the life of the Reid family in 2010, resulting in one death and a family left in pieces. They met again this spring.
"I'm looking out the window, not paying attention and I hear tires screeching," Garrett Reid says."I look to my left and see just a blur of red. My dad pulls to the right hard. And the last words I hear are,"Oh s---."
In October 2010, Bellatti pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter. He faced between five and seven years in prison. During the sentencing hearing, prosecutor Curtis Ross laid it out simply:"The conduct and the level of recklessness that Mr. Bellatti displayed that day would normally warrant a prison case but for him victimizing an extremely kind and compassionate family," Ross told the judge he would abide by her wish and recommend that Bellatti avoid prison time."It wasn't forced," Lyn Reid says."It didn't hit me like a bolt of lightning or anything like that.
"I howled," Garrett says."I realized what I was living with, and the pain. It was primal. I was filled with malice. Rage. I lived with that rage and nightmares and fantasies for quite some time, for several months. It wasn't until I realized that hate at such a severe caliber was consuming me: waking moments, days, nights, dreams. It was all consuming.""Evening the score," he says."Truly at the heart of it, in the darkest moments, it was ending his life.
"With time, the tide got lower," he says."I still have to live with the loss of my father for the rest of my life, and that will be my own journey. But even when I had processed that rage and gotten rid of it, if I'd have a meltdown around a success, like, 'I wish I could call my dad and tell him,' it was never a slim thought of, 'Screw [Andrew]. He took that from me.' There's still the pain. But it's softened. The edges are rounded out versus sharp.
"It's amazing what you can't process when it's too close, that you think you've dealt with, and you haven't," she says."You go through the whole grieving process all over again. [I] did a lot of talking about Dave. But it was easier. It was easier to talk. Easier to remember the funny stuff and the good things."
"No. 1, I want to say I'm sorry," Bellatti says, his eyes welling with tears."I know I wrote you a letter, but writing is ... you can read words, but I want to tell you face to face. I just want you to know I'm sorry. Somehow you didn't want me to rot in the ground for the rest of my life. You honestly had a hand in where this life is.
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