Mom of Levi Caverly, teen killed in Jersey Shore sand hole collapse, speaks out

The mom of an adolescent killed in a freak sand gap collapse on the Jersey Shore mentioned Wednesday that she’s attempting to just accept the heartbreaking loss.

“It's what it's. You'll be able to’t change it,” Angela Caverly, of Union, Maine, informed NJ.com of her 18-year-old son Levi Caverly’s demise.

The distraught mother mentioned the household was on a visit to Toms River’s Ocean Seashore 3 Tuesday when her son and 17-year-old daughter dug a 10-foot-deep gap that immediately caved in and crushed Levi to demise.

She mentioned her daughter, who was buried as much as her neck, was effectively sufficient to drive them house to Maine, in keeping with the outlet.

“Bodily, my daughter is OK. She’s serving to drive us house proper now,” Angela Caverly mentioned.

Levi Caverly was home-schooled, had three siblings and had not too long ago been educating himself laptop programming, she mentioned. 

“He was attempting to be taught laptop coding, self-taught. He liked music and was enjoying drums in a reward band at our church,” his mother mentioned. “We did house faculty and [2021] was his final yr.”

Levi Caverly was killed and his teenage sister was trapped when sand collapsed on them on the Jersey Shore.

Fb / Levi Caverly

The final images of Levi Caverly together with his household moments earlier than he was killed.

Angela described her son as a “tech nut” who was educating himself laptop programming.

Fb / Levi Caverly

Caverly was on trip on the shore together with his household.

Fb / Todd Caverly

Angela Caverly — a religious church-goer who has labored at a Baptist church in Maine, in keeping with her Fb web page — mentioned she’s discovering consolation in her religion and within the rescuers who rushed to assist her son.

“We had a number of individuals attempting to assist and we’re very grateful for that,” Angela Caverly informed NJ Advance Media on Wednesday. “We all know he’s with Jesus and smiling down on us.”

The household rented a home in Toms River to be close to the ocean earlier this week, she mentioned. They spent a lot of the day on the seashore Tuesday afternoon on the seashore earlier than tragedy struck.

The siblings spent hours digging a gap within the sand with frisbees earlier than it collapsed, police mentioned.

The brother and sister have been making a gap with frisbees.

The scene of the tragedy is now stuffed in and changed with a small memorial the place the sand caved in.

Steve White