"His heart was larger than life": Family of Eden crash victim honors life of Madison "Matt" Carter (2025)

I’M PRETTY CHOKED UP. THANK GOD. I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY. A DEADLY TRAGEDY. MULTIPLE PEOPLE WERE KILLED AFTER A VEHICLE DROVE INTO A BLOCK PARTY IN VANCOUVER LATE LAST NIGHT. AND THAT’S WHERE WE START THIS MORNING. VANCOUVER POLICE SAY AT LEAST NINE PEOPLE ARE DEAD, AND SEVERAL MORE ARE INJURED AFTER A CAR PLOWED INTO A CROWD AT THE CITY’S LAPU-LAPU DAY FILIPINO FESTIVAL. AT THE EXACT NUMBER OF VICTIMS IS UNKNOWN. IT HAPPENED AROUND 8 P.M. LOCAL TIME. AUTHORITIES DO NOT BELIEVE IT WAS AN ACT OF TERRORISM, AND THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE IS IN CUSTODY. AUTHORITIES CONFIRMED HE’S A 30 YEAR OLD MAN FROM VANCOUVER BUT DID NOT SHARE HIS IDENTITY. PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY CALLED THE RAMMING HORRIFIC IN A STATEMENT POSTED TO SOCIAL MEDIA, SAYING, QUOTE, I OFFER MY DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO THE LOVED ONES OF THOSE KILLED AND INJURED TO THE FILIPINO CANADIAN COMMUNITY AND TO EVERYONE IN VANCOUVER. WE ARE ALL MOURNING WITH YOU. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. LET’S TAKE A LOOK NOW AT OUR WEATHER. BRIAN, WHAT CAN WE EXPECT FOR THE REST OF THE WEEKEND? LOOKS GOOD. WE DRY THINGS OUT. WE’RE GOING TO COOL THINGS DOWN A LITTLE BIT TOO, BUT IT’S STILL GOING TO BE A BEAUTIFUL DAY TO BE OUTSIDE. GOOD. AS WE CHECK THINGS OUT. LOOKING BACK AT RADAR, THE LAST 24 HOURS, WE HAD A GOOD AMOUNT OF SUNSHINE DURING THE DAYTIME. YESTERDAY, AFTER A BATCH OF EARLY MORNING SHOWERS CAME THROUGH. THE BULK OF THE DAY WAS GOOD. WE HAD SOME AFTERNOON STORMS FIRE UP ALONG THE ACTUAL COLD FRONT. SQUEEZE THROUGH THE TRIAD. MOSTLY BRINGING SOME POCKETS OF HEAVY RAIN. A LITTLE LIGHTNING TO A FEW SHOWERS HERE AND THERE OVER WILKES COUNTY. BUT MOST OF MERLEFEST HAS BEEN DRY AND PRETTY COMFORTABLE TOO. THAT’S A LIVE LOOK OVER WILKES COUNTY, WHERE TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE MID 40S. NORTH WILKESORO FEELS LIKE 45 DEGREES THIS MORNING, SO CAMPERS FEELING THE EARLY MORNING CHILL. SO AS A TRIAD CLOSE TO 50 DEGREES THIS MORNING FROM 51 AT PTI AIRPORT, 49 RIGHT NOW IN WINSTON-SALEM. YOU GET IN SOME OF THE RURAL AREAS ACROSS THE NORTH. TEMPERATURES HAVE SLIPPED INTO THE LOW TO MID 40S, BUT WE’RE STILL HOLDING ON TO SOME 50S DOWN TO THE SOUTH. IN GENERAL, TEMPERATURES ARE DOWN. MOST AREAS ABOUT 10 TO 15 DEGREES COLDER UP IN DANVILLE YOU ARE 19 DEGREES CHILLIER THIS MORNING THAN YOU WERE EARLY SATURDAY. FINAL DAY OF MERLEFEST FORECAST LOOKS GREAT. TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE 60S, THE BULK OF THE DAY, WITH HIGHS JUST GETTING INTO THE LOWER 70S WITH A FEW EXTRA CLOUDS THIS AFTERNOON. WE’LL TELL YOU HOW THE REST OF THIS WEEK WILL UNFOLD. COMING UP IN JUST A FEW SHORT MINUTES. AND BREAKING OVERNIGHT IN THE TRIAD, POLICE SAY A PERSON IS IN THE HOSPITAL AFTER THEY WERE SHOT IN GREENSBORO. AUTHORITIES TELL US THEY RESPONDED TO A CALL ON THE 3200 BLOCK OF EAST BESSEMER AVENUE AROUND 3 A.M. NOW, NO ONE HAS BEEN ARRESTED AT THIS TIME, AND THERE’S NO WORD ON THE VICTIM’S CONDITION. GREENSBORO POLICE SAY EAST BESSEMER ROAD IS CLOSED BETWEEN HOUGH AND MILL ROAD AND ELWILL AVENUE DUE TO THE SHOOTING. AN INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING. STAYING IN THE TRIAD, WINSTON-SALEM POLICE IS LOOKING FOR A SUSPECT AFTER A GUN WENT OFF AT 620 NORTH LIBERTY STREET. AUTHORITIES SAY THEY RESPONDED TO THE CALL AROUND MIDNIGHT. NO ONE HAS BEEN ARRESTED AT THIS TIME. NO ONE WAS HURT AND NOTHING WAS DAMAGED. NOW TO EDEN, WHERE AUTHORITIES CONTINUE THEIR INVESTIGATION INTO A CRASH THAT CLAIMED THE LIVES OF FOUR PEOPLE. NORTH CAROLINA HIGHWAY PATROL SAYS IT HAPPENED THURSDAY AFTERNOON WHEN A CITY OF EDEN DUMP TRUCK RAN THE STOP SIGN AT THE INTERSECTION OF CARROLL AND CHURCH STREETS AND PLOWED INTO SIX MEN WORKING ON POWER LINES. FOUR OF THOSE WORKERS WERE KILLED. THEIR AGES RANGE FROM 30 TO 72 YEARS OLD. NOW, AT LAST CHECK, TWO SURVIVORS ARE STILL FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES THIS MORNING IN THE WAKE OF THIS TRAGEDY, COMMUNITY MEMBERS GATHERED LAST NIGHT TO PRAY FOR THOSE IMPACTED BY THAT CRASH. DOZENS GATHERED AT CHARLIE POOLE PARK AND SUPPORT OF THE FAMILIES AFFECTED. BETTY CARTER, WHO HELPED ORGANIZE THE EVENT, TELLS US SHE FELT CALLED TO DO SOMETHING AFTER HEARIN ABOUT THE DEVASTATING CRASH, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAVE JUMPED IN TO HELP THE FAMILIES OF THE FOUR VICTIMS DURING THIS TOUGH TIME, INCLUDING A PAIR OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT KNOW THE DANGERS OF LINEMAN WORK ALL TOO WELL. WHILE ANNE-MARIE OLIVIERI DOESN’T KNOW THE VICTIMS PERSONALLY, SHE KNOWS THEIR WORK WELL. AFTER ALL, HER HUSBAND IS A LINEMAN. THE DANGERS OF THE JOB LED HER TO START THE NONPROFIT LINE LIFE FOUNDATION, MEANT TO HELP THOSE IMPACTED BY LINE ACCIDENTS. WE. GET AHOLD OF THE FAMILIES AS MUCH AS WE CAN, AND WE SEND THEM A CHECK TO HELP OUT RIGHT AWAY. AND THEN WE’LL DO DONATIONS ON THE SITE. WE HAVE THE LINK TO HER WEBSITE ON WXII 12.COM. THERE YOU CAN ALSO FIND OUR COMPLETE COVERAGE ON THE STORY, INCLUDING MORE REACTIONS FROM OFFICIAL