‘16 and Pregnant’ alum Sean Garinger dead at 20 after ATV accident ‘crushed’ him

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MTV’s “16 and Pregnant,” died Wednesday in his hometown of Boone, North Carolina, after a freak accident involving an ATV. He was 20. “I was with him when it happened,” Garinger’s mother, Mary Hobbs, told the US Sun. “He was just moving [the ATV] from one parking spot to the next for me, so I could back into park.”“He pulled [in] front of me to park the ATV and the ground gave way from all the rain and mud,” she said, adding that the ATV then flipped over and “crushed” her son’s skull. “I ran to neighbors trying to get someone to help me get the ATV off of him.

No one answered. I ran back to him,” the grieving mother continued. “By that time, I realized he wasn’t alive anymore.”According to Hobbs, 40, she just “laid next to him until the ambulance showed up.”“There was a huge part of my heart that died with my son on Wednesday,” she continued. “He was my only son, my rock, my strength when I had none left.”Just prior to the accident, the pair had been looking to buy a car for Garinger so he could visit his two daughters, whom he shares with ex-girlfriend Selena Gutierrez, in Colorado.“Sean brightened my world in a way no one else could ever come close to.

He was my baby boy, my squishy, my heartbeat,” Hobbs continued. “We loved spontaneously jumping in the car for a road trip or a beach sesh.”“We bonded over music, fast cars and shooting guns and taking new adventures,” she added.

According to local reports, the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO), Boone Fire Department and Watauga Medics all responded to the 911 call.