ABC 7
One year ago, Jason Redmer passed away and not a day goes by that his mother, Lynne, doesn't ask the question, "Why?" "He had a deep heart and he just loved life," the Orange County resident recalls. But behind his big smile was a decade long struggle with alcohol. "Whiskey is what he normally would drink," she said. "He said when he would go on trips and vacations he would take lots of pictures because he wouldn't remember the vacations." Redmer's family said he tried several times to get sober, only to relapse. After a work injury in 2010, his mother said he also became addicted to pain killers. "It was horrible because he was trying. He was trying so hard," the grieving mother said.
