After Maj. Eduardo Caraveo was murdered by Nidal Hasan in 2009, his wife, Angela Rivera, says she kept his Sprint phone service active. She wanted their young son to grow up hearing his dad’s voice on the voice mail greeting.
In heartbreaking testimony during the sentencing phase of the Fort Hood trial, Rivera said the recording was lost when Sprint rolled out an upgrade.
Caraveo's wife, Angela Rivera said she never turned off his cell phone because she wanted to keep the sound of his voice on his voicemail…
— Chris Sadeghi (@chrissadeghi) August 26, 2013
so their baby son could grow up and hear daddy's voice. Sprint upgraded their voicemail system and the voicemail message was lost #hasan
— Chris Sadeghi (@chrissadeghi) August 26, 2013
Killeen Daily Herald reporter Philip Jankowski reached out to Sprint on Twitter yesterday to find out if there’s any way to restore the message.
Widow of #FortHood shooting victim says she kept his @Sprint phone active to hear his voice. Carrier deleted voicemail message 3 months ago.
— Phil Jankowski (@PhilJankowski) August 26, 2013
.@Sprint can you recover old voicemail recordings? Family of Maj. Librardo E. Caraveo would be happy if you could.
— Phil Jankowski (@PhilJankowski) August 26, 2013
Angela Rivera said her husband's outgoing voicemail message lost after keeping @sprint phone active only to hear his voice. #FortHood
— Phil Jankowski (@PhilJankowski) August 26, 2013
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Sprint has not issued a public response.
Twitchy readers, activate! A Fort Hood widow and her little boy need the company’s help.
Sprint’s official customer service Twitter account is @SprintCare. You know what to do.
Update:
Thanks to your tweets and retweets, the @SprintCare account reached out to Twitchy.
@TwitchyTeam Thx for reaching out to us! What happened to your husband's voicemail? What device is he using? -ATB
— Sprint Care (@sprintcare) August 27, 2013
Let’s hope we can make this happen.
.@sprintcare Thx for reply. More info: http://t.co/sB4H3yDGSL Reporter @KDHcrime may be able to put you in touch with the #FortHood widow.
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 27, 2013
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