16 and Pregnant star dies aged 20 after tragic car accident outside his home
05.03.2024 - 14:16
/ ok.co.uk
Star of reality TV show 16 and Pregnant, Sean Garinger, has sadly died in an accident outside his home, leaving behind two young children.
The TV personality, whose journey to fatherhood was featured in season six of the programme, was killed in an ATV accident on February 28, his mother Mary Hobbs has sadly confirmed. Mary, who also appeared on the MTV docuseries, said the incident happened outside her son's home in Boone, North Carolina, telling the U. S.
Sun that "the ground gave way from all the rain and mud," causing Garinger's ATV to flip and crush his skull. Garinger starred in the series with ex Selena Gutierrez, 20, and they welcomed two children together, Dareli, three, and Esmi, one. He appeared in part B of the show's sixth season, as Gutierrez was one of five expecting teenagers whose motherhood journeys were documented on the programme, reports the Daily Star.
His mother said: "He was just moving [the ATV] from one parking spot to the next for me, so I could back into park. He pulled [in] front of me to park the ATV and the ground gave way from all the rain and mud. She said her son's head suffered severe head injuries when the ATV flipped over.
She added: "I ran to neighbours trying to get someone to help me get the ATV off of him. No one answered. I ran back to him.
By that time, I realised he wasn't alive anymore." Hobbs said that she "laid next to" her son on the ground prior to the ambulance showing up at the scene. She added: "There was a huge part of my heart that died with my son on Wednesday. He was my only son, my rock, my strength when I had none left." She added: "There was a huge part of my heart that died with my son on Wednesday.