Rogersville man sentenced to 3 years

I was there the day Mr. Masoner was sentenced, and not once did he ever said anything close to the statement posted. He is yet to apologize for his "mistake". Leaving the scene of the accident to save your own skin and not calling for help for so-called "best friend" is a little more than a mistake. It's called being a coward. Clay was not his best friend, Matthew Lester is. A best friend would not have left Clay to die, and that is exactly what happened. With a friend like Devin, who needs enemies.

Devin is anything but a "coward", a fine young man who made a bad mistake that night, a mistake he will have to live with the rest of his life. And YES, Devin did make that statement. Court records do not lie.

daisydo wrote:

I was there the day Mr. Masoner was sentenced, and not once did he ever said anything close to the statement posted. He is yet to apologize for his "mistake". Leaving the scene of the accident to save your own skin and not calling for help for so-called "best friend" is a little more than a mistake. It's called being a coward. Clay was not his best friend, Matthew Lester is. A best friend would not have left Clay to die, and that is exactly what happened. With a friend like Devin, who needs enemies.

Devin didn't kill him. It was purly an accident. You have a lot of hate you need to let go.

it was an accident that the wreck happened, but it was not an accident that devin called for help for himself and was picked up by his parents and then left clay alone in the car...to die. it would have been just as easy to have called 911 and got help for both. i can guarantee that would have been what clay would have done if the roles had been reversed.

none of this would have happened if devin would have just dialed 911. he had the ability to call for help for himself so why did he not call for help for clay? did he think he wouldn't get caught or that it would just go away? and why did devins parents not try to help clay? how do you pull away from a wreck and leave someone behind to die?? i know that a lot of lies have been told to try to make devin look like the victim, but he's still alive isn't he. his parents are nothing but liars too.

the reason he didnt call 911 is because he is a coward. he thought he might get in trouble so he was afraid. but now clay is dead and devin needs to be punished and in my opinion 3 years of jail time is not nearly enough. there woul be no reason for him to go to jail if he would have gotten help. now clays family is having to suffer the loss of a very great kid and devins family is only worried if they can make it to visit him or not.

i totally agree with you about devin being a coward. devin and family act like it was clays fault. what if it had been the other way around and clay had been driving and devin was killed. i doubt they would have offered clay any mercy.

Clay and I are best friends and have been since kindergarden we even lived together at one point. He told me that no one knew him better than me. Now everyone is right even down to Clay forgiving devin. But I dont believe I will ever be able to. There is so much more to the whole thing that meets the eye. And as for an apology i'm still waitng for mine.

P.S. He only got one not three

what i don't understand is why did devin get so little time. he is the reason clay is dead. he will get out soon and get to go on like nothing ever happened. he can't have a conscience, because it he did, he would not have left the scene and left clay to die. i can't stand his family being so "holier that thou". they make me sick. they are so phony and act like devin is the victim. if devin was such a great role model and outstanding person, then he would not have been drinking and driving in the first place. my opinion is that he is nothing but a coward. he needs to remember that what comes around goes around. i honestly believe that one day him and his "precious" family will be in the situation that the thornton family is facing. if they would just admit that they were wrong in leaving clay behind, it might make it a little easier, but, they do not accept any responsibility. they have tried to blame it on clay himself. they are a cold hearted family. i know that God says to forgive, but i doubt that they would have forgiven clay if he had been the driver and devin had died. the only thing is, clay would not have left. he would have tried to help even if it meant going to jail. that is the kind of person clay is. he was always thinking of other people. i am so sick of devin saying that he and clay were best friends. matthew lester was clays one and only best frined. they were closer than most brothers. i myself have witnessed devin and clay arguing because devin would act like he was so much better than clay. devin could never even come close to being the person clay is. the only thing devin regrets about that night is getting caught. not taking an innocent life, but, getting caught. boo hoo he lost his scholarship!! well clay lost his life and the world lost a great person!! clay will always be remembered!! i hope i never have to see devin again!

sli wrote:

Devin didn't kill him. It was purly an accident. You have a lot of hate you need to let go.

let me ask you one thing. pretend that clay was your brother or sister or someone that you really cared about. how would you feel knowing that the person driving the car only seeked help for themselves and did not think that your loved one was nothing more than a piece of trash that they threw out their window. that is exactly how he treated "his best friend" a piece of trash. if he had enough sense to call for help for himself, he should have made sure clay had help also. his parents claim they did not see that car, but if they could see devins skinny drunk self, they had to be able to see a 2 ton silver car. their headlights would have been shining on the car. i hope devin never has peace. i hope his parents never have peace. they have always thought they were better than everyone else. still do. good christian people, like they say they are, would have never been drunk in the first place, much less pull away and leave someone to die. i hope that devin becomes someones very special friend while he is in jail. he deserves it plus more. i know that the wreck was an accident, it is what happened after the wreck that was not an accident. they deliberately left the scene. devin did not have the injuries they said he did. if he had, why did they wait so long to take him to the hospital, and why drive all the way to huntsville? they were trying to sober him up, and by then clay had been found so they knew he would be being sent to ecm. they did not even call an ambulance for devin because all he had was a few scratches. i guess it is true, the drunk never gets hurt when they cause an accident. devin is a selfish ego maniac jerk...just like his parents. i wish that the whole family would move so i would not have to look at any of them again. all of this will come back around to them one day.

I have been informed that Devin may be getting out one parole. If he does that must mean that noone knows what real punishment is anymore. November 19 is now the day that will always be horrible for me to go through. If Devin had just gotten help none of this would ever have happened. I also think about how Clay must have suffered. Now the world has lost someone who could have been a very talented musician, though he was already, but with his talent he could have been famous, but now his music is just a memory. Devin now gets to live a grow up and have a family, but Clay will never have that chance, Devin made sure of that. Clay would have gotten help as soon as possible if it were the other way around. It was almost impossible for someone to hate Clay, but now I hope EVERYONE hates Devin, because I know I do, and I'm suremany people agree with me.

You who are without sin, cast the first stone.

It's easy isn't it. You get on your soapbox on this little website and put your 2 cents worth in, your 15 minutes, as if you could sway someone's opinion about this tragedy. The only thing you can offer here is only speculation and conjecture.

Yes, it was a tragedy, made by the mistakes of two boys, not one. Drinking and driving, a poor choice. Riding with someone who's been drinking and driving, a poor choice, as well. An accident with mortality was the sum of the above equation.
A young man was lost never to be replaced, life WILL go on. So, you choose to condemn the perpetrator here openly, when you yourselves are likely guilty of the same crime. So.....you who are without sin, CAST THE FIRST STONE.

that night was a bad night for everybody and there are 911 tapes if you want to hear first hand what happened but who really wants to know the truth these days.everything these days is circle talk and not helpful talk.why not solve problems and issues face to face instead of feeding your fire or others.God says love your enemies and neighboors.because God made everybody good or bad. not saying clay or devin are good or bad.i feel that the two families that the accident hurt the most should forgive and love not hate.

An observation wrote:

You who are without sin, cast the first stone.
It's easy isn't it. You get on your soapbox on this little website and put your 2 cents worth in, your 15 minutes, as if you could sway someone's opinion about this tragedy. The only thing you can offer here is only speculation and conjecture.
Yes, it was a tragedy, made by the mistakes of two boys, not one. Drinking and driving, a poor choice. Riding with someone who's been drinking and driving, a poor choice, as well. An accident with mortality was the sum of the above equation.
A young man was lost never to be replaced, life WILL go on. So, you choose to condemn the perpetrator here openly, when you yourselves are likely guilty of the same crime. So.....you who are without sin, CAST THE FIRST STONE.

yea life will go on but because devin did not get help Clay's life will not, he wil not be able to see his family or any of his siblings family,all because what devin did. I hope his parents have had a fraction of the pain that Clay's family has gone through. Now they know what it's like to know how it feels to not have someone they love at Thanksgiving and next month Christmas, but for them they will probably get him back next year or the next, but neither Clay nor his family or friends will get that. I hope devin has so many nightmares and regrets because he took the life of someone that was very close to me.

about devin and clay wrote:

that night was a bad night for everybody and there are 911 tapes if you want to hear first hand what happened but who really wants to know the truth these days.everything these days is circle talk and not helpful talk.why not solve problems and issues face to face instead of feeding your fire or others.God says love your enemies and neighboors.because God made everybody good or bad. not saying clay or devin are good or bad.i feel that the two families that the accident hurt the most should forgive and love not hate.

What 911 tapes, why has no one heard of them? If devin had called 911 then Clay might still be alive. they did not find Clay until about 6 the morning of the accident so you can not say there were 911 tapes, if there were devin certainly didn't call. there was only one family hurt and that's Clay's. devin's family has no remorse, and I don't see how they can say Clay and devin were 'best friends' the only best friend Clay had was Matthew Lester. Best friends do not leave their friends to die in a car. I hope karma follows devin through his whole life and tortures him like Clay's family has been and will be tortured. Clay did not deserve what he got, he did not deserve to die at the age he did. He was the best friend that anyone could have but devin did not see that, he saw someone who was below him and took advantage of that.

If there are 911 tapes it was not from devin or his sorry hypocrite family. I am so sick of them saying they did not know there had been a wreck or that Clay was even there. Then why did devins dad drive him to the state farm office and not the hospital it he had all these injuries that mysteriously disappeared. They were trying to sober him up. I have went directly to the paramedics that found Clay. They told me that devin did not have anything wrong with him and they kept asking him what had happened. He finally told them 2 hours after the wreck to go check on Clay. So if he knew then that Clay was still in the car, he knew it and so did his parents when they picked-up his sorry low down ass. To the comment of Ye without sin.... I'm sure that came from devins family. They are the only one that thinks they have not done anything wrong. Oh and your little comment about loving your neighbor, to bad you didn't teach devin that. Then maybe Clay would still be here and devin wouldn't being bent over every night.(which i hope happens daily) I guarantee that if Clay had been driving and the same thing had happenen, he would have called for help for devin. He would not have left and pretended he did not know what happened. But that is the differance of being a man and a little bitch like devin. The world has lost a great person in losing Clay. I wish it had been the other way around because I would not even notice that devin was not here anymore. His family needs to realize that what goes around comes around, but they need to remember to "love and forgive" when it does.