Matthew Gaudreau’s Widow Welcomes Baby 4 Months After Accident That Killed Him And Brother​on December 30, 2024 at 5:37 am

Four months after her late husband’s death, the widow of Matthew Gaudreau has given birth to their first child.

Madeline Gaudreau announced the arrival of son Tripp Matthew Gaudreau in an Instagram post on Sunday, where she shared a photo an infant in a blue onesie reaching out to hold her hand.

In the caption, she called her little one “Mommy & Daddy’s world.”

Matthew Gaudreau and his professional hockey player brother, Johnny Gaudreau, died in late August after an alleged drunk driver ran into the brothers, who were riding bikes after dark at the time.

Suspect Sean M. Higgins was arrested at the scene, where he failed a field sobriety test and told authorities he had drunk between five and six beers earlier that day.

Higgins was charged with two counts of vehicular homicide, reckless driving, possession of an open container and consuming alcohol in a vehicle.

Matthew Gaudreau, a minor league hockey veteran and high school coach, was 29. His older brother, a star forward for the Columbus Blue Jackets, was 31.

New mother Madeline Gaudreau remembered her husband’s excitement about becoming a father during a September memorial service for the siblings.

“The moment we found out about our son, Tripp, it consumed his every day,” she told mourners.

She also spoke about the devastating consequences of drunk driving in her eulogy, pleading with people to never “put another family through this torture.”