<P> 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 . </P>
<P> 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 . </P>
who kills dawson in the best of me
who kills dawson in the best of me
his father and cousins
his father and cousins