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ST. LOUIS — The jury found Daniel Riley guilty on four of five counts he was charged with after the crash that took Tennessee volleyball player Janae Edmondson’s legs.

Riley's family was visibly upset and in tears when the verdict was read. It was hard to see Riley’s expression because he was wearing a mask.

The Edmondsons told 5 On Your Side it was very stressful waiting for this verdict, but they were so relieved hearing the result.

Janae Edmondson and her family got one last chance to speak to the jury before they headed back to deliberate a sentence for Daniel Riley. Janae’s three siblings could not be there Thursday, but prosecutors read their joint statement saying they're still heartbroken over the crash that changed their lives.

Assistant Circuit Attorney Tanja Engelhardt read the her siblings' statement to the jury. It said in part, “If you had asked us one year ago if we had anything to be grateful for, we would have said no. But today we stand together eternally grateful that Janae is still alive. We are grateful that our dad was able to utilize his military training to save her. We're grateful that Janae found the strength to adapt to her new life.”

And while Janae is adapting, her mom, Francine, said nothing will be easy for Janae ever again and had one plea for the jury.

“When we're in St. Louis at the hospital after she just first woke up, she said to me that day, 'Please make sure he doesn't get out. Don't let him do this to anyone else,'” Francine Edmonson said.

Janae, herself, was in tears as she spoke to the jury one last time, explaining how she can no longer do the simple things like, walk or shower standing up.

“I wake up in the morning every day, and I'm immediately reminded of what happened. And I never want anyone to experience the pain, the sadness and the helplessness that I felt. But one positive I have gained from this journey is my faith in Jesus,” Janae Edmondson said.

The Edmondsons all asked the jury for the maximum prison sentence they could provide, but her father, James, said nothing will ever be enough for him.

“He will still be able to walk, even after the time you guys and the court give him. He will be able to run, he’ll be able to bend, he’ll be able to do all those things. My daughter will not,” James Edmondson said.

Riley and his attorneys declined to make a final statement. Riley’s family didn’t make a statement, either, and declined our request for an interview at this time.

The jury recommended nearly 19 years in prison. Now, it's up to Judge Michael Noble to make a final decision. Noble said there will be a presentencing investigation before a final hearing scheduled for 1:30 p.m. April 18.

The judge gave the defense an additional 10 days to file an appeal.

Riley was able to hug his mom one last time before deputies led him away.

After breaking the cone of silence, one of the jurors walked past the attorneys and straight over to the Edmondson family and gave each of them a hug before walking back out the jury exit.

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Lizzy Caplan and Tom Riley have been married since 2017

When they first started dating, Tom Riley almost sacrificed an eye while trying to impress Lizzy Caplan. Fortunately, his injury wasn’t for nothing — they’re now married and share a son.

The actors met in London in 2015 while Caplan was there to film Allied. It was early on in their relationship when Riley arrived at his then-girlfriend’s Los Angeles home, gargled Listerine and spat it out onto the roadside only to be met with a cactus needle in his eye, per This Morning.

Ultimately, that incident only brought the couple closer together. They wed in 2017 on the Amalfi coast in Italy with several celebrity guests in attendance. Four years later, they welcomed their son, Alfie.

The Mean Girls actress noted to Grazia USA in 2022 she “can’t imagine” raising him with anyone else. “I do feel very, very lucky,” she said.

Both Caplan and Riley value their privacy and are not active on social media. “The idea of being a ‘power couple’ or in a relationship that is a ‘brand’ is just so unappealing to me,” he explained to The Telegraph.

However, they do share touching and hilarious anecdotes about their marriage and family life in interviews.

So, who is Lizzy Caplan's husband? Here's everything to know about Tom Riley and his relationship with the Fatal Attraction star.

He’s from Kent, England

Riley grew up in a town in Kent, England, called Maidstone, per his website. He was already acting by the age of 4 and enjoyed writing and directing plays throughout his time in school.

For college, the actor attended Birmingham University, where he studied English literature and drama, founded a theater company called Article 19 and also had his own radio show.

Riley then graduated in 2002 and began a three-year acting course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

They met while Lizzy was filming in London

Caplan and Riley met in London while she was there to film the war drama Allied in 2015. They went public with their relationship at the Prague Opera Ball in February 2016, and got engaged three months later.

He’s an actor and producer

Riley is an actor, director and producer. He’s best known for playing Leonardo da Vinci in the Starz series Da Vinci’s Demons, as well as Charlie in BBC2's Ill Behaviour, DI Will Wagstaffe in ITV's Dark Heart and Claude Sabine in Amazon UK's The Collection. He also appeared in the Netflix series, The Woman In The House… and in HBO’s The Nevers.

In addition to his television roles, Riley has starred in several indie films, performed onstage and directed and produced a variety of television and film projects.

According to his website, he pursues work that he “can take pride in; that he would want to show to his friends; that he would seek out if he were not in it and that his heroes would enjoy.”

Tom almost lost an eye on a date early in their relationship

When Riley attempted to put his best foot forward during one of his early dates with Caplan, he wound up seriously injuring himself. He told the story during a 2018 interview on This Morning.

“I pulled up outside her house in L.A., and I wanted to have very clean breath,” Riley remembered. He was prepared with Listerine in his glove box, so he gargled and spat on the roadside.

What he didn’t notice was the cactus in his spitting path. “As I spat, a needle went straight through my eyeball,” the actor said on the show.

Although he tried to play it cool with Caplan at the time, she noticed how bad his eye looked, and his pupil began to leak. Doctors told Riley that he was just 2.5 millimeters from going blind.

“There is nothing that solidifies the beginning of a new relationship more than having to put an eye patch on your boyfriend’s face every night before he falls asleep,” he joked.

They got married in Italy

Over Labor Day weekend in 2017, the couple exchanged vows in Ravello, an Italian town on the Amalfi Coast.

According to the local newspaper, Il Vescovado, fellow actors Octavia Spencer, Lily Collins, Dianna Agron, James Marsden, Chris Hemsworth and Dave Franco were all in attendance. Celebrity stylist Ilaria Urbinati was also there to celebrate.

After the ceremony, Riley posted a black-and-white photo from the special day on his now-deleted Instagram. “This one seems fertile,” he quipped in the caption. “She shall make a satisfactory first wife.”

Caplan had debuted her engagement ring in June 2016 at the Now You See Me 2 premiere. In July 2016, she gave fans a better look while posing at the Ghostbusters premiere. She wore her ring with a white Erdem dress and a small black handbag at the event.

They share a son

Caplan and Riley welcomed their son Alfie in 2021. The actress opened up about enjoying motherhood during an interview with Grazia USA the following year.

“There are moments where you're just watching this little person do a thing and you're just beaming at him and you don't even realize you're beaming until maybe you see a picture of yourself watching him do this thing and you realize, ‘Oh my, I'm smiling so much right now,’ ” Caplan explained to the magazine.

She also described parenting Alfie as “unrivaled pure joy.” According to Caplan, her husband is the “father of the century," and she noted that they both felt prepared to take this step.

“We got a lot of life in before we had a kid, so we were both very ready to do this,” she said, adding, “Motherhood's good stuff. Highly recommend. 10 out of 10 would recommend.”

Riley revealed that being a father “has its ups and downs” during a January 2022 appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers. He recalled the time he and Caplan took Alfie on his first international flight, and the baby had a messy accident when they took off. Apparently, Caplan ended up on “on all fours” trying to clean him up in the plane bathroom.

Caplan joked he gets into the "most embarrassing" situations

In October 2019, Caplan appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and poked fun at her husband. “I like that he tends to get into the most embarrassing, humiliating situations on earth,” she told Jimmy Kimmel, before recalling a specific instance.

One time, when they were seeing a play at a theater in England, Riley went to the bathroom and returned “white as a ghost, covered in sweat,” according to Caplan.

He proceeded to explain to her that he tried to spit gum into a urinal, but it landed on another man’s private area in the process. “I wanted him to tell the story even slower, so I could just drink it in,” she said.

They prioritize each other

Even with their busy careers, the actors always put each other and Alfie first. Caplan shared with PEOPLE in May 2023 that her “priorities are set.” She explained, “I have a baby, [am] married. That part of my life is the most important part of my life, where in the past, work was the most important part.”

The duo often support each other’s work at industry events; Caplan attended Riley’s Starfish premiere in 2016, and he joined her at the premieres for Allied and her Hulu series, Castle Rock. They also celebrated her show, Fleishman Is in Trouble, at Carnegie Hall together in November 2022.

Riley and Caplan still make time for romance, too. During an April 2023 appearance on Watch What Happens Live, the Cloverfield star told host Andy Cohen about Riley’s sweet gesture for her 40th birthday. The actor got 150 people from her past to write kind messages, and then he made a book out of it. “He tracked down my high school boyfriend,” Caplan emphasized.

“This is something we as PAs are uniquely positioned to address.”

September 8, 2023

Nearly 50,000 Americans die by suicide each year. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), an estimated one-third of those individuals visited a primary care provider in the month before their death.

Knowing how to give patients with suicidal thoughts the support they need is becoming increasingly important for all providers—not just mental health professionals. For that reason, Lisa Riley, PA-C, MHP, and Ali Walker, PA-C, RRT, have been working for the past two years with AFSP to develop a formal education module for PAs on suicide prevention.

“Even with all of the knowledge we have and training we receive as providers, most of us do not get sufficient education around suicide,” said Walker, a critical care PA at George Washington University Hospital. “The program we developed is designed to help providers understand suicide on a more clinical level, to facilitate more meaningful conversations with their patients, and to have a better grasp of the available resources and treatment options.”

Riley and Walker are personally committed to raising mental health awareness, as both have lost close friends and colleagues to suicide. And through their clinical experiences, both are keenly aware of the growing need for suicide prevention education for providers—especially for PAs, who serve in diverse roles and provide care to a variety of patient populations.

Becoming Comfortable A large component of their education program focuses on strategies to help providers normalize difficult conversations about suicide. The initial hurdle for many providers is to overcome any averseness to asking the patient deeply personal questions about their mental health.

Even as a fervent advocate for mental health, Riley, a full-time assistant professor in the PA program at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, admits that early in her career, she was hesitant around patients who showed signs of severe depression.

“Of all the things I’ve asked my patients throughout my career, the hardest for me was asking, ‘Are you thinking about suicide?’” said Riley, who worked as an orthopaedic surgery PA for 30 years before becoming an educator in 2018. “Back then, I was afraid of what their answer would be. And in the back of my mind was the myth that by asking someone that question, it puts the idea in their head. But we know that’s simply not the case.”

Riley, who serves as a national board member of AFSP, says that practicing through role play is one of the best methods for providers to normalize those conversations. It also helps providers realize they can approach mental health similar to how they would treat a patient’s physical health.

“Even though I wasn’t a psych PA, I still had multiple scenarios with patients where I needed to help them through a mental health crisis,” Riley said. “Just like with any other treatment, I assured them I was going to be with them throughout the process, we’d go over options and resources available to them, and then we’d create a plan.”

Changing Perspectives For the past five years, Walker has spent much of her non-clinical time volunteering through her local Washington, D.C. chapter of AFSP. While serving as an AFSP board member and eventually as its chairperson, Walker helped coordinate and participated in a variety of events to promote suicide prevention.

Walker is now focused on helping healthcare systems integrate mental health and suicide prevention programs. She also helps area hospitals coordinate free education sessions for the public to raise awareness and reduce stigma surrounding suicide. Within a relatively short period of time, she says she has seen a noticeable shift in mental health awareness and less apprehension regarding the topic of suicide.

After losing a close friend to suicide in 2010, Walker recalls feeling uneasy when she spoke about it to her friends and family. “I could tell they would get uncomfortable and wouldn’t know what to say,” she said. “And it was painful for me too; I was going through my own grief, and I didn’t really have anyone to talk to about it. It was an awful feeling.”

Since that time, Walker has noted how people—both healthcare providers and the general public—are much more accepting of and sympathetic toward individuals who are struggling with their mental health.

“I think a big reason why is that people are increasingly realizing that managing mental health is something we all must do,” Walker said. “And whether we need a clinical diagnosis or not, we all have our ups and downs and, we’re getting better at recognizing when something isn’t right.”

Recognizing the Warning Signs Realizing someone may be dealing with severe depression and thoughts of suicide is not always easy. Riley advises providers, friends, and family members of those who may be struggling to look for key changes in behavior. Those changes often involve the person not showing up to work, avoiding social activities, using drugs, or consuming more alcohol.

“We typically think of a person who is suicidal as someone who is very withdrawn and sad looking,” Riley said. “While that certainly can be the case, some people don’t exhibit those stereotypical warning signs. So, it’s more about how their behavior has changed. Are they more restless? Are they drinking more? Abusing substances?”

Other red flags can be found indirectly in the language they use, Riley says. People with suicidal thoughts will often speak about their own death or how they are a burden on others. But those comments might be misinterpreted as merely jokes or self-deprecation when they should be cause for concern.

“One of the biggest red flags I’ve noticed is when people say they feel a sense of burdensomeness,” Riley noted. “We see that a lot in healthcare, especially among patients who have chronic pain and illnesses, which can often lead to those feelings of depression.”

Getting Involved Riley and Walker are eager to present an overview of their education module later this year at the PAEA Education Forum. And in addition to advocating for more PA training on suicide prevention, they continue to encourage their provider colleagues to become more familiar with existing resources and to get involved with their local AFSP chapters.

“This is something we as PAs are uniquely positioned to address,” Walker said. “The more comfortable we are talking about suicide, the more comfortable and willing our patients will be talking to us about it. And all it takes is one conversation to make a meaningful impact—for someone to feel supported and inspired to get the help they need.”

If you or someone you know might be at risk of suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255, or visit suicidepreventionlifeline.org.

Dave Andrews is a freelance writer and public relations professional based in Northern Virginia. Contact him at [email protected].

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