FORT WORTH, Texas — A Fort Worth grandmother is speaking publicly for the first time about the crash involving a train that killed her five-year-old grandson, Emilio Martinez, and the family pain that followed.

In an interview with WFAA, Maria Escamilla said Emilio and his father lived with her.

The boy, a student at Fort Worth ISD's Worth Heights Elementary School, spent most afternoons playing in the courtyard of their apartment complex, the same place she sat on Friday as she described the moment her other son, Fabian Riojas, called her from the crash scene.

“Fabian told me, ‘Mom, I made a mistake. I am so sorry,’” Escamilla said in Spanish. “I heard him say, ‘God, please forgive me.’”

Riojas, the boy's 24-year-old uncle, picked him up from school that day, Escamilla said. She usual

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