Brian Trumble texted and called his daughters several times Aug 1 when they hadn’t made it home from an outing in Rochester. Neither answered. As his worry grew, Trumble used Find My Friends to track his daughters’ iPhones.
Their location said they were three miles away from home. Trumble hopped into his car and drove to the intersection of Ira Hill Road and Farnam Road in Ira. The roads were blocked off by deputies, he said.
“An officer asked what I was doing, what I was looking for,” Trumble said. “I told him I was looking for my daughters.” Hailey Trumble, 19, and her sister, Shelby, 17, were both killed in a crash in Cayuga County on Thursday.
They were coming home from a day spent at Seabreeze Amusement Park, according to their father. “It’s a tremendous loss,” Brian Trumble told syracuse.com .
“It’s never going to be the same again.” The sisters’ parents, who are divorced, both described Hailey and Shelby as simple, country girls who loved animals and being outdoors. They were into crafts and often painted each other’s nails.
They liked watching Gilmore Girls and Heartland . Living in Hannibal, they spent time camping, fishing and being outside, their mother, Tina Trumble said. Their mother said she remembers when Shelby was in elementary school, she would hop off the school bus and run straight to the pond.
“She’d run down this dirt road to the pond that was out back, in like the middle of a cornfield, and go fishing, every day,” Tina .