Family and friends continue to mourn Scott Patrick Wilson two years after accident

PALM BEACH, Fla. - February 12th of 2010 marked the end of the life of 23-year-old Scott Patrick Wilson after investigators say he drowned after being hit by a car.

Mourning started for family and friends that day and has continued for two years.

At the site, deputies say Polo tycoon John Goodman ran a stop sign while driving drunk crashed his Bentley into Wilson's car, dozens gathered to pay tribute to Wilson Sunday.

On the cold Sunday, the flowers on his memorial waved in the breeze as onlookers held hands, paid their respects and a mother shed tears remembering her son she lost too early.

"The weather is the same," Lili Wilson said about the atmosphere eerily similarity to the night her son died. "I can feel it's cold just like it was on that day. It's tough. It's very upsetting."

The heartbreak is one family members are still trying to mend with numerous long hugs.

"It's been tough you know," Wilson's best friend of 10 years James Courbanou said. "I'm in graduate school you know he died my second semester so that's kind of been on me the whole time."

But come August, Courbanou will graduate and he will do it in his best friend's honor.

"It's going to be really tough," he said about graduating without Wilson there to witness it. "Actually I'm getting married in August as well and you know he was suppose to be one of my groomsmen so standing up there without him is going to be pretty tough."

Memories that are now lost, but armed with black trash bags, orange reflector vests over top of baby blue 'Clean up for Scott' shirts, dozens of friends and family cleaned up the street they've now adopted in the young man's memory.

"It's the least we can do to kind of honor him in this area and it kind of makes this sacred ground," another one of Wilson's friend, Matt Sanchez said. "It gives you a warm feeling even on a cold day like this."

A day that's only weeks away from the civil and criminal trial many who remembered Wilson Sunday morning hope brings justice for the loss of their friend, family member and son.

"There's a sign over there that says 'never forget' and what's coming up the next month we hope will be something that causes certain people to never forget," Lili Wilson's attorney Chris Searcy added.

The criminal trial is set to begin March 6th with the civil trial beginning a few weeks later.