After she left the voicemail, she receives a call from which she learns that her son had been in an accident and needs a heart transplant. Having lost her daughter already, she feels miserable on hearing this news. Soon her son gets a heart transplant surgery donor. The next morning when she wakes up, she sees Dawson sitting by her side watching her sleep, though he was not actually there. Her mother arrives at the house and is informed that Dawson was attacked by his father and cousins. Though he managed to trick his cousin Abee into shooting Ted in the leg with his Glock and knocked Abee unconscious with a crowbar, Dawson was shot in the chest by his father when he was calling the sheriff. Even though Dawson 's father and cousins were later arrested, Dawson died shortly thereafter of his gunshot wound. Devastated with grief over the loss of Dawson, Amanda attends his funeral along with Aaron Cole and his mother.
who kills dawson in the best of me
his father and cousins