Sister remembers 13-year-old brother killed in car accident

MILLSBORO, Del. – One family in Delaware says they’ll never be the same after their 13-year-old son, Grey, was killed in a car accident nearly a month ago.

Grey’s little sister, 8-year-old Kaylee, says she lost half of her that day, but she’s finding creative ways to still feel close to him.

“I was actually driving to go get him, I was going to spend the day with him, and I was like 30 minutes away from his school when I got the call that, you know, he had been in an accident,” Grey’s dad, Grey Baker, said. “I didn’t believe it, I didn’t believe them, you know, I drove to the hospital where they gave me the news.”

With Grey no longer here, the family has only memories left of the energetic, fun-loving kid.

“All the times we would go outside and he would just ambush me with Nerf guns, because I didn’t know what I was doing, I was like how do I do this? and he would come up to me and be like, this is how you do it,” Kaylee said.

Grey’s family says he was like a fish in water, you couldn’t pry him off of his surfboard or out of the ocean. It’s moments like that that are forever changed.

“They say he loved to surf, I taught him how to surf, and we surfed together, and him not being there now, I don’t know, it won’t be the same,” the older Grey said.

Kaylee says some of her favorite memories include brother and sister moments, times when her and Grey created worlds that only the two of them could understand together.

“Me and him liked to play this pony game, it’s kind of like an imaginary game, it’s like a unicorn stable,” she said.

Even though Grey isn’t physically right there with Kaylee, she does everything she can to keep the memory of her best friend with her. Sometimes that means making bracelets they used to make together or drawing portraits of her big brother.

“Sometimes I do sketches and I put them in his room, that say Love Kaylee, to Grey,” she said.

But one of Kaylee’s favorite ways to remember her brother is a way that lets her see his face whenever she’s really missing him. She often wears a shirt with a picture of her brother on the front.

“I just love him and I wanted to wear this so I could like, see him,” she explained.

For her, it’s about having her brother right there with her.

“it’s like…I get part of him back,” Kaylee said.

Kaylee also wrote a letter to her brother that she read at his funeral. In the letter Kaylee wrote, in part,  “I will never ever forget you and the times we had together. You were always there for me.”

Because Grey loved surfing, his family is encouraging people to donate to the Delaware Surf Rider Foundation’s Delaware Chapter in Grey’s name.
If you’re interested in donating, you can mail a check or cash to the Delaware Chapter at:

Surfrider Foundation Delaware Chapter,

P.O. Box 364, Nassau, De. 19969.