In Memory of Gaje Jeffrey Florence

I just learned from the Assistant DA, that we are going to trial. From my understanding, the new court date is set for September 24, 2007.

We ask for your prayers to help us get through this.

I am hoping that they do not call me or my husband to testify in the trial, I would like to be there for the entire trial, and if they do then we will have to wait in another room.

The case is suppose to be strong and we are asking for the maximum sentence which is only four years. With the help of God and the DA, we will be able to get it.

I will be checking the court docket at a later time to confirm the court date and time so that it wil be available for you.

Keep us in your prayers.

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the lord my soul to keep,
If I die before I wake,
I pray the lord my soul to take

A prayer was said each night with Gaje. This prayer was recited by his dad with him every night before he would go to bed. His dad continues to say these prayers but now he says them alone. He still prays that God will keep him safe.

You try to picture Gaje up there with walking with God, the image is blurry but if you try hard enough, you can see him. I see him.

You hold on to the memories as though he had never left. You first began to laugh and then the tears start to flow down your face.

You second guess yourself about the way that raise him but then you know you did good, because he was a good child.

You wonder why God took him if we needed him so much, he would have been perfect for this world with his innocence and loving touch.

I feel empty inside, I feel alone.

God please help us, I can't stand it anymore. Let me know our baby is safe. Take our pain away.

This may come as a shock to most people but, Murguia, the women who ran over Gaje, is only going to get a possible four years in prison.

She was in violation of her parole and she may get three years for it and one year for negligent homicide. This is if the law is not changed and if she is found guilty and is given the max that is allowed by law.

You may think that this is ridiculous and if you know the family or the case, then you are right. It is an outrage and it is sad to say that because of the Oklahoma Law, she will only serve a small percentage of what she should have gotten.

Under the circumstances, I am only able to display a small porportion of what is going on in this case.

I do know that our family is in search of her doing the max time that is allowed by law. If her attorney does not agree with these terms, which he probably won't, then we will more than likely go to trial. If we go to trial, it could take at least six months before we even began to go to court.

Our family is asking for all of the prayers that we can get and any support that you may offer, is greatly appreciated.

I don't know why,
I will never know why
I don't have to know why,
I don't like it
I don't have to like it,
what I do have to di sis make a choice about my living
What I do want to do is accept it and go one living
The choice is mine
I can go on living, valuing every moment
ina way I never did before
or I can be destroyed by it and
in turn, destroy others
I thought I was immortal
that my family and my children were also
that tragedy happened only to others
but I know now that life is tenuous and valuable
So, I am choosing to on living
making the most of the time I have
valuing my family and friends
in a way never possible before

From the book "MY Son, My Son"

Please sign this petition. The petition is to get the state of Oklahoma to toughen the laws for negligent homicide. Negligent is the act of being careless. If you are careless enough to get behind the wheel of a vehicle and to act in a dangerous manor then you should do the time that they give you. The sentence for negligent homicide is only one year. We are asking that the laws be changes so that the negligent homicide charge will carry out a longer sentence.

Please sign this petition, it would mean a lot to all of us here that knew Gaje as well as to those families who have been ripped apart by due to people being negligent while driving.

The petition will be sent out to the State legislature after I receive enough signitures. I am trying to get as many as I can before this lady is sentensed. Please help us before it is too late.

In memory of Gaje Petition

Thanks to all who have signed this.

Please do not ask me if I am over it yet.
I will never be over it.
Please do not tell me he is in a better place.
He is not here with me.
Please do not say at least he is not suffering.
I have never figured out why he had to suffer at all.
Please do not tell me you know how I feel.
unless you have lost a child.
Please do not ask me if I feel better.
This is not a condition that clears up.
Please do not tell me at least you had him for so many years.
What would you choose for your child to die?
Please do not tell me that God only gives us what we can handle.
Please just say that you are sorry.
Please just remember my son, if you do.
Please just let me talk about my son.
Please mention my sons name.
Please just let me cry.

Author Unknown

There was a few things that I needed to clear up. I am not the biological mother of Gaje, I am his step mother. I am married to his father, Brent Jeffrey Florence, who has full custody of him. I feel that I have played my role in Gaje's life. We all come from a very close family, who usually spent our time at my mother in laws house.

I would hope that the nasty comments would stop after this post. The Kiowa Tribe, which Gaje is a member of, did pay portion of the funeral bill. We are greatful for them doing this. However, there is still bills that keep coming in.

The funds that were set up, are going to pay for the hospital bill, funeral home, limo's, plaque, casket, clean up crew, and any other bills that are a result of this incident.

The Florence family, has taken it upon themselves to pay for all of these charges. We have been asking for your help to try to cover the bills. Whatever is left over will be paid for by our family.

I am not writing this post out of bitterness but out of anger that someone left me a comment exclaiming a few inappropriate remarks.

Please disregard any rude behavior on this blog. This blog is a dedication to our son Gaje Jeffrey Florence and I would appreciate it if everyone who wrote a comment that is inappropriate or meaningless, would refrain from doing so. If you feel the need to vent, then please leave me a message at r.florence84@yahoo.com and not on this blog.

I do not appreciate it and neither does all of the family and friends that come on here to pay their respects and to keep updated with all of the court procedings.

Thank you and I do apologize for having to write this post.

Okay, for those of you who have been wondering how to look her up on the computer under the court dockets.

So, I decieded to make this easier for all of you who care about this information.

I can only list certain information so listen up carefully.

The lady who ran over him is Elisie Margarietta Murguia and she also has an allience that she goes by, Elsa Margaret Ontiverras.
Her birthdate is 10/30/78.

To access the information on the court docket, you will need to go to and the court docket number is, CM-2007-1641. This is all of the information that you need to access this information.

If you look on there, you will also see that she was picked up as recentely as two weeks before the negligent homicide charge. The negligent homicide charge is still pending a court date.

The DA said that they are going to get the driving under suspension out of the way before they go to court for the negligent homicide. They want to do this to make it easier on everyone.

We have also been informed that the court dates that are coming up are just for them to try to continue everything and that there is no sense in everyone going to these. They said that they would let us know when we need to go to court. As soon as I have this information, I will post it up on this blog for everyone to see.

I opened up a guestbook for Gaje. This guestbook is located on the right hand side of the blog and we would greatly appreciate it if you would sign it for us.

You can write a message to anyone in the family as well as to Gaje himself.

I have also added a picture album at the bottom of this blog for those of you who would like to take a peek at it.

I will be adding more stuff to this blog so make sure that you keep updated. If you would like to receive an email with updates to this blog, make sure to add your email address to feedblitz. The email updates are located on the top left of this blog.

With the help of Myspace.com and the friends and family that I have on there, we have been able to spread the word about Gaje and what his memory meant to us.

There have been numerous people who have posted links back to this blog and also links to the news columns so that people can keep updated on them.

Thank you to those of you who have been posting up the news on Gaje's trial as well as momentums about him.

Associated Content, a company that I work for, asked me to write and article for them so that they would be able to help spread the word about my son's death.

I worked for a long time on this article and through tears and anguish, I was able to come up with an article.

The article will tell you about the day that my son, Gaje Jeffrey Florence, died and what happened.

I would hope that you would all take the time to view it. It was edited by the Associated Content editors and the name of the article was one that they had come up with.

Please take the time to read it, it would mean a lot to our family. Thank you.

Oklahoma City mother recounts the death of her son

I received a phone call this morning letting me know that the court date was moved from June the 7th of 2007 to June the 12th at 9 A.M.

I hate that they moved it, I am ready to get this over with. I was warned that they would probably try to drag it out for as long as they could. I don't see why though, she can't get out of jail until her court date since she was denied bail.

I think that this is disgusting and that there should be better justice. I am thinking about starting a petition for Gaje so that no other family will have to go through what we are going through.

The court system is getting ridiculous when they allow someone to keep getting out of jail. Did it take the death of our son before this women is punished and then she is only getting a slap on the rist.

The punishment should be harder and more severe due to all that this woman has done and not only to us but to other families as well even though we are the ones who lost a child due to her wreckless driving.

I want people to hear us screaming out to the justice system and for the courts to take a stand and say that enough is enough. Don't they care that a little boy, my boy, was killed because the courts kept letting her out of jail?

Bail was denied for the women who killed our son after the judge decieded that she was indeed a flight risk. The women was quoted yelling at her friends to get her bonded out of jail and then she was out of there.

I do believe that if this women got the chance, she would leave the United States. She has been known to post bail and then not appear in court.

The judge made a wise decision on this.

The women who ran over Gaje Florence, did not show any remorse for her actions and her family has not given an apology for what she had done.

The laws should be changed so that no other family should have to go through what we have went through. The next court date is set for June the 7th of 2007.

On Saturday May the 19th of 2007, my little boy, Gaje Jeffrey Florence, was killed after being ran over by a truck while he played in his own driveway.

The details of this day, are still a puzzle to me. I could not have imagined this happening to our family. What possesed this woman to back into our driveway that day?

I was later told that she was visiting our neighbors when the women that she was visiting yelled at her to come back to her house. Instead of the women backing up, she backed into our driveway where she killed our son.

The women was charged with negligent homicide which is only a misdemeoner charge. She was also charged with driving under suspension. This lady had previous charges of driving under suspension as well as a previous hit and run charge. She also has a warrant out for her in New Mexico and has been known for not showing up for court.

This lady should have never been behind the wheel of a vehicle but the law kept letting her out of jail. If she is found guilty, this women may only face up to two years of inprisonment for negligent homicide.

This is not justice. Gaje should be at home with us and not dead. Dead.... this is such a hard word for me to comprehend.

With the help of Oklahoma City's news channel four, we have set up an account with Bank of Oklahoma to help pay for the cost of the funeral, hospital bill, and other charges as a result of this incident.

I want to thank all of you who have helped to raise money to help us with these expenses. We greatly appreciate your donations as well as the cards and food that has been sent to our families house.