Mom of boy killed in Westminster road rage shooting tried to save kids

By Colleen Slevin, The Associated Press

BRIGHTON — The driver who had screamed at Meghan Bigelow on a busy suburban street and followed her and her three sons into the parking lot of a dental office to argue finally began to drive away. But then, Bigelow recalled Wednesday, Jeremy Webster stopped after she pulled out her phone to take a video of his car and got out with a gun.

Bigelow, testifying at the start of Webster’s murder trial, said she told her boys to run and began to walk away from them to try to keep Webster from hurting her children. She was shot in the back, and, after falling to the ground, shot in the head.

She said she heard her middle son, 12-year-old Cooper, call out for her and ask if she was OK. Not wanting to lie, she said, “I can hear…