58-year-old Carl Galm was booked into the Kendall County Jail Wednesday on three manslaughter charges.
SAN ANTONIO — A grandmother who lost three loved ones in a violent crash spoke with KENS 5 after police made an arrest in the case.
Mary and John Herrera sat with one of their surviving grandchildren in the home their daughter grew up in. So many memories line their walls, now three are gone forever.
In October of 2024, 14-year-old Blake Waid, her mother Patricia and father Roger, were hit and killed by a wrong-way driver while traveling just outside outside Boerne.
Carl Galm, 58, was booked into the Kendall County Jail Wednesday and charged with three counts of manslaughter.
According to reports, in October of last year, Galm was attempting to pass a vehicle on a hill, on a blind curve in a no-passing zone in the 500 block of State Highway 46 West near Boerne when he slammed into the Waid’s car.
“I told her call me…call me my baby Pat…I knew in my heart something was wrong,” Mary said in tears.
Mary said she fainted when she found out her child, Patricia, had died. With her, Mary and John’s son-in-law and their daughter.
They’re survived by Blake’s siblings, Brooke and Barrett. Barrett sat with Mary and John as they recalled their love for the family.
Mary said Roger loved to push his kids and make them better. He was a fixer-upper who would help anyone who needed it and loved to barbeque.
Blake had just started high school and was playing basketball. Mary said she’d call Blake everyday to make sure everything was going well.
“She’d tell me, ‘Grandma I have a lot of friends,'” Mary recalled.
Just like her mother. Growing up, Mary said Patricia was very popular.
She and Roger met very young and grew up right next to each other. Soon after falling in love, they would marry and have their three children.
It wasn’t that long ago that Roger finally built their dream home out in the hill country. Patricia knew it’d come with a rodent or two but she could stick it out for her love.
Her family fondly recalled how she had asked Roger to put the home closer to the driveway so people could see where they were and he did it for her. Roger and Patricia did everything for their family.
A smile came to Mary’s face when she talked about how the two invited everyone into their home.
Now that is all a memory because of one fateful night.
“I want him to pay for what he did to my family,” Mary said.