‘“It was very emotional,” Bill Winters told The Buffalo News during a phone conversation Friday. “It was something I was actually thinking about. He had texted me 10 or 15 minutes before saying he was coming into East Aurora. I thought to myself, ‘Maybe drive by and see mom and dad,’ but I didn’t say anything to him. The next thing I know, he sends me that picture. He was very close with my dad, so it was the craziest thing.”’