Emilie Kiser Urges Families to ‘Get a Pool Fence’ in Tribute to Son Trigg 6 Months After He Died in Drowning Incident

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• Emilie Kiser has shared a tribute to her 3-year-old son Trigg six months after his death

• “Every ounce of me yearns to hold him again, hug him again, tell him how special he is, and how much I love him,” the creator wrote

• Kiser also urged families to “get a pool fence” in her post, sharing advice about how to avoid “a preventable accident, such as drowning”

Emilie Kiser has shared a tribute to her son Trigg six months after his death.

“The second it hit midnight this morning it’s like my body knew,” wrote the Arizona-based content creator in a post on Instagram, shared on Nov. 12. “What felt like any ordinary day six months ago turned into the worst moments of my entire life. The day my son Trigg drowned.”

In May, Trigg, 3, died after drowning in a backyard pool incident in Kiser and her husband Brady’s backyard.

“I miss him with every fiber of my being,” continued Emilie in the post. “Every ounce of me yearns to hold him again, hug him again, tell him how special he is, and how much I love him. I miss his voice, his hugs, his smile, his laugh, the way he added a ‘k’ sound to any word ending with the letter ‘s’ and the way he lit up every room he walked into.”

The emotional tribute comes several months after Emilie — who is known online for her lifestyle content — returned to social media on Aug. 28, making her first public statement after her son’s death. In the weeks since, she has continued to open up about her grief journey, describing her experience with therapy as she processes the loss of her child.

Later in Emilie’s Nov. 12 post, the influencer offered advice to “save families from the pain of losing a child to a preventable accident, such as drowning” — urging families to “get a pool fence,” enroll kids in swim lessons as early as 6 months and watch their children “at all times.”

According the the Chandler Police Department’s incident report, the family’s backyard pool was usually protected by a net-like cover, though it had been recently removed for an upcoming cleaning, scheduled the day after the incident. Per the report, there were multiple kids’ toys throughout the backyard and at the bottom of the pool and “no pool gate or barrier was in place at the time” of the incident.

In her Aug. 28 statement, Emilie said she took “full accountability” for her son’s death, adding that “one of the hardest lessons I carry is that a permanent pool fence could have saved his life.”

Following Trigg’s death, Emilie has engaged in a legal battle surrounding the public release of information surrounding police records pertaining to the incident.

Brady, who was the only parent home at the time of the drowning, initially told police that he had lost sight of his son for three to five minutes before discovering him in the pool, though a report by the CPD later cited video evidence that Trigg “was in the backyard unsupervised for more than nine minutes, and in the water for about seven of those minutes.”

In August, the Arizona Superior Court for Maricopa County ruled in favor of Emilie’s filing to remove the two pages of CPD’s police report, including recommendations for Brady to be charged with a class 4 felony of child abuse after the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office announced that there was “no likelihood of conviction” against Brady.

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In May, the month Trigg died, Emilie filed a lawsuit to keep records about her son’s death out of public view, and the Arizona Superior Court for Maricopa County ruled in her favor on a separate motion she filed to keep her personal declaration private.

Emilie’s plea to the court, which was later made public in August, described helicopters circling over her home and said she and her husband were “deeply concerned about the release of specific information and our ability to even start to heal.”

“I know statistically Trigg’s drowning won’t be the last, and more have happened since,” Emilie concluded her Nov. 12 post. “I miss him daily, I love him forever, and I hope I can spread even an ounce of the joy he gifted to us and everyone he crossed paths with each day.”

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