QUITMAN — A memorial erected to remember the three high school football players killed in a car accident in 2013 has been removed by the property owner. In its place, a No Trespassing sign.

The makeshift memorial surrounded the tree the car the three were traveling struck back in July of 2013.

“A sentimental place like this, I just could not believe that people would be that mean,” Agnes Kimbrough, one of the victim’s mother told WCTV in an interview.

Two years ago, Shawn Waters, Johnnie Parker, and Kimbrough’s son Jicarre Watkins, were killed when their car swerved and hit a tree as they traveled to football practice.

Since the memorial was removed, Kimbrough and others in the county have been working with county officials to find a way to memorialize the three young men without creating problems on private property.

“We have actually started the conversation with our engineers to determine where that’s at so that when Mrs. Agnes comes to the board which she’s already scheduled for the month of September, we can give her an idea of what we had to work with out there,” Brooks County administrator Justin DeVane told WCTV.

Kimbrough also noted in the report that the last thing she wants is to start trouble and hopes the owner and the boy’s families can come to a peaceful agreement

“No disrespect but this was just a sentimental piece for us, for the community and we would like to work with you as well as for you to work with us to make this a permanent memorial,” said Kimbrough in the report.

The Brooks County Commission meets again September 14.