Mother seeks justice for son found beaten on side of road

LATROBE, Pa. — A Latrobe family is still seeking answers and justice a year after Michael Ghrist died after a brutal beating.

Bonnie Fogle, Ghrist's mother, sat down with Channel 11 to talk about her son in the hopes that somebody will come forward with more information surrounding his death.

Ghrist, 30, was found brutally beaten on the side of Charles Houck Road on May 16 last year. A woman walking her dog found him between several cars around 4 p.m. in the afternoon.

It was a call no mother ever wants to get, Fogle recalled. Her son died 12 days later, and Fogle was by his side.

The pain of losing her son hasn't subsided, and Fogle is afraid her son's attackers won't be brought to justice.

"They're going to get away with it and I can't let that happen," she said.

She said her son was lured to his death and the beating most certainly wasn't an accident.

"His car was running, it was sitting in the middle of the road with the door open and his cell phone on the seat," she said.

Fogle remembers her son as a giving person, somebody who would "go without to make sure someone else had what they needed."

Police told Channel 11 they're still actively investigating the case, and anyone with information is asked to call the state police in Greensburg.

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