James and Ashley O'Canas are speaking out about the drinking and driving accident that killed their son, 17-year-old James Russell O'Canas Jr., last month.
They're hoping their son's story can save others.
"Nothing can bring him back, this is hard," said his father James.
Investigators say on January 12, Edith Melendez, a bartender at BreWingZ restaurant served a dozen pitchers of beer to Russell and his 19-year-old friend Lee Cruz Trevino. Surveillance video shows she never asked for ID.
The teens left the bar with Trevino behind the wheel.
"His last text to me was 'love you mama,'" said his mother Ashley.
The car erupted in flames after Trevino lost control and crashed into a tree. A witness managed to pull Trevino out, but Trevino fled the scene leaving Russell behind. He died in that burning car.
"It was the hardest time of my life, not knowing if my son was alive or dead," said Ashley.
"It still feels like a dream," said James. I wait here everyday for him to pop up and come through that door and say how was your day. But I can't have that no more."
Ben Affleck 'nervous' about The Last Duel
The 47-year-old actor has penned the upcoming medieval movie alongside Adam Driver, Jodie Comer and Matt Damon and admits he is feeling the pressure ahead of the film.
He told Entertainment Tonight: "I am a little nervous. Because I have never done Medieval! It's 1386, so it is like armour and swords and stuff like that. But it was a real pleasure working with Matt and Nicole Holofcener, who wrote the script with us. Matt and I kept saying, 'Why have we not done this more often?' We just got lucky that our schedules kind of intersected so that we had some free time to share. We got Ridley Scott directing it. And Jodie Comer's in the movie, so that's very exciting, and Adam Driver."
The movie will focus on Matt and Adam playing best friends. A synopsis reads: "The story is of Norman knight Jean de Carrouges and the squire Jacques Le Gris. De Carrouges goes to war and returns to accuse of raping his wife Marguerite (Jodie). No one will believe the woman, and the solider appeals to King Charles VI of France to undo a decision handed down by Count Pierre d'Anencon, which favoured Le Gris. The decision is that the two men fight a duel to the death. The one left alive would be declared the winner as a sign of God's will. And if de Carrouges loses, his wife will be burned at the stake for her false accusation."
Ridley is adapting the movie from Eric Jager's novel whilst the script has been penned by Matt, Ben and Nicole Holofcener.
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