BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — A 14-year-old boy from Buffalo died in a crash at Elmwood Boulevard and Amherst Avenue over the weekend..

Police said the man was driving a stolen vehicle at a high rate of speed when he ran a red light and crashed into two other vehicles.

The story sparked a wider discussion on social media, with many voices rising about who should be held responsible. Some of the vocal ones pointed their fingers at the parents.

A Buffalo mother challenges this perspective and offers a perspective you may not have heard before.

Raymonda Reynolds said she had her own experience trying to keep her child out of trouble with law enforcement and shared her story with me.

“‘Where are my parents?’ “I’ve seen that many times,” Reynolds said. “‘The parents should go to jail,’ ‘The parents are letting these kids run wild,’ and that made me angry.”

Reynolds said he was angry and horrified. He is afraid that what happened to the 14-year-old boy will happen to his 15-year-old son. He said he and his father did everything they could to turn his life around.

“We’re here and my child has a support system,” Reynolds said. “It’s on both sides of his family. Nobody does drugs. There’s no such thing.”

Reynolds reached out to me after seeing these comments about parents online, and we had a very honest conversation about what it’s like to have your child get in trouble with the law.

“I saw him running away, getting caught stealing in public, being violent, not going to school,” Reynolds said. “I’ve called the police so many times… they’ll tell me ‘there’s nothing we can do’.”

“When my son stole the car, I said to him, ‘Can’t you take him to the East Ferry? Something? Can you scare him a little?’ “I said no,” Reynolds explained.

The same goes for the institutions that were supposed to help, they said there was nothing they could do, and Reynolds said young people knew that.

“They have no consequences and they know it,” Reynolds said. “They know this, the system has taken parenting away from us.”

He’s begging for someone to do something.

“I don’t want my son in prison, I don’t want my son in the cemetery,” Reynolds said. “The laws need to change. They need to be changed.”

I took his plea to Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia, and he agreed.

“A 14-year-old child should not die in a car accident, he should not die in such an encounter, the law is against us… I have said this many times,” Gramaglia said.

Reynolds hopes someone finds a way to fix this before another tragedy occurs.