Georgia Tech Recruit Bryce Gowdy Death Ruled A Suicide By Train

The hours in the car had been filled with questions about spirituality and about whether his younger brothers would be okay, she said. She also claimed that Bryce had grown increasingly paranoid.

Bryce’s father, Frankie Gowdy, did not respond to requests for comment.

Winelle told her son that she was not strong enough to help him.

“You have to dig in and fight these demons that you’re fighting,” she told him as they waited for one of his brothers to leave his job before heading to the hotel room for the night. She added that she “had my own demons that I was trying to fight.”

When the family arrived at the hotel, Winelle’s boys went upstairs, leaving her in the car alone in the car with time to “decompress.” Bryce later came down to sit with his mom. He tried to hold her hand, but she would not let him because he had her so upset.

“His energy was so intense,” she said. “I could feel the pain in his soul, and it was breaking my heart.”