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Christine Dawood, the widow who lost her husband and son in the Titan Submersible disaster three years ago, said she remembers getting their remains back nine months after the implosion in two small boxes — like “shoeboxes.”

“We didn’t get the bodies for nine months,” Dawood told the Guardian in a story published on Saturday. “Well, when I say bodies, I mean the slush that was left. They came in two small boxes, like shoeboxes.”

She added that “There wasn’t much they could find” of Shahzada Dawood, 48, and their son, Suleman, 19, of London, after the implosion. 

“They have a big pile they can’t separate, all mixed DNA, and they asked if I wanted some of that, too. But I said no, just what you know is Suleman and Shahzada.”

Shahzada and Suleman were killed along with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, businessman Hamish Harding and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, when the submersible imploded as it descended toward the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic Ocean on June 18, 2023.

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Dawood told the Guardian she remembers the last time she saw her husband and son that morning they got in the submersible as she battled seasickness aboard the ship that took them out to where they descended.

“Suleman had his Rubik’s Cube, because he was planning to get the record for solving it at the deepest depth ever,” she remembered. “And we were giggling, because Shahzada is clumsy and when he was going down the stairs he was wobbling a bit. I waved. And that was it. They got into a dinghy and sped off. It went very fast, the goodbye.”

A few hours later in the ship’s dining room, Dawood heard someone say: “They’ve lost communications.”

When they realized she overheard, the person added: “’Don’t worry, it’s not unusual.’ In that moment, what am I supposed to do? I felt trapped on that ship and I had no choice but to trust what they told me.”

She said she tried to keep her anxiety at bay, telling herself, “they were stuck” in the submersible. 

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“But I was worried. Suleman is not … well, both my men, they’re not very good at being in the dark, and I knew it would be a very different darkness down there. Nothing. You literally can’t see a thing,” she said.

She said everyone on the ship was in complete denial.

“The crew were [acting] like nothing was happening,” she said, saying the crew suggested it would just take time for the crew to be found unharmed.

“It did cross my mind that OceanGate had ulterior motivations about what they told us,” she added. “They were just trying to avoid the truth. But I would have deteriorated a lot quicker without hope.”

As they waited, she said the crew scheduled jamming sessions and movies to pass the time.

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“Ultimately, I think they wanted to distract people, keep everyone occupied,” she said. “They wanted everyone onside, not to feed anything to the press. But jamming sessions? Am I really going to sit there and sing Kumbaya? I did try to give a movie a go, but when I got there it felt like an act of betrayal. Watching ‘Wayne’s World’ while they are trapped in the dark did not sit well with me.”

After an extensive search, the remains of the submersible were found on the ocean floor.

The U.S. Coast Guard called it a “catastrophic implosion.”

“My first thought was, thank God,” Dawood said. “When they said catastrophic, I knew Shahzada and Suleman didn’t even know about it. One moment they were there and the next they weren’t. Knowing they didn’t suffer has been so important. They’re gone, but the way they went does somehow make it easier.”

Once she knew they were gone, Dawood said she had to deal with the practical details.

“What was I going to do with their stuff?” she said. “Their bags? Shahzada’s clothes and things were in my cabin, so I packed his bags. But I didn’t pack Suleman’s. I couldn’t. Someone else did that.”

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Last year, the Coast Guard released a report, calling the implosion a “preventable tragedy,” blaming OceanGate’s culture of avoiding regulating and “negligence” on safety.

“From the beginning, I had a lot of reasons to hate Stockton, but does that really help me?” Dawood said. “He died with them. If I’m angry with him, I’m giving him power, and I refuse to do that. I’m sure people will say I’m naive, but if I start to analyse every single thing, where does that lead me? So, I choose my own … not happiness but … I choose me, every day. If I don’t, I wouldn’t be here. I would have killed myself, for sure.”

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She added that she tries to give her grief “attention.”

“So I go into Suleman’s room. Sometimes I find the cat sleeping on his pillow and I sit on the bed and let the grief come,” she admitted. “And after a while I can put the grief away until the next time it gets too much. I’ve worked a lot on my grief for Suleman, but I’m only now starting to grieve for my husband. Publicly they are always put together, but they are two different relationships. Two very different pains.”

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The father of an Illinois woman who was killed by an illegal immigrant in a DUI crash issued a warning to Americans amid a push for stricter laws concerning driver’s licenses.

During Wednesday’s California gubernatorial debate, Democrat Katie Porter said she would “fight” the Trump administration after she was asked if English language proficiency should be strictly enforced for truck drivers.

Her comments come amid a string of fatal incidents involving illegal immigrant drivers, including Harjinder Singh, who allegedly made an illegal U-turn on the Florida Turnpike in August, triggering a crash that left three dead, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

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In a more recent case, Bekzhan Beishekeev, an illegal immigrant from Kyrgyzstan who entered the U.S. under the Biden administration, is accused of failing to stop for a slowing semi-truck, swerving into oncoming traffic and slamming into a van carrying up to 15 passengers, killing four, according to DHS.

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Joe Abraham, whose daughter was killed by an illegal immigrant drunken driver, warned Americans in an interview with Fox News Digital about the dangers of allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses — commercial or otherwise — without proper vetting.

“What happens is the outcomes are like what my family’s suffering through right now. So you take away these guardrails, you nullify federal law and then you implement no real process, an upfront process to understand who’s coming into our communities. Are they vetted, they were not. Were they health screened? No, the guy who killed Katie had HIV, no one even identified him until he was incarcerated,” he said.

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Abraham’s daughter, Katie, was killed in a drunken driving hit-and-run crash that involved an illegal immigrant in 2025 in Urbana, Illinois. Julio Cucul-Bol, an illegal immigrant, was sentenced to 30 years in prison after he crashed into her car and fled the scene.

“Let’s figure out where those cracks are and tighten them up. But if you have a process, and I’ve been talking about this since Katie’s death, you cannot just say, everyone is my neighbor,” he said.

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Abraham said at the very least, knowledge of the English language should be a requirement.

“It seems really common sense-wise, and I know that our politicians today struggle with common sense. I don’t know if they try to outsmart their common sense or if it’s just straight up ideology and power. But it seems to me that if you’re on the roads, not only should you know the language and be able to read the signs and understand the flow, but you should be assimilated in some way,” Abraham said.

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The Illinois resident said his daughter was a “beautiful person” with a “sharp wit.”

“She was so personable. Her personality was so engaging, made everyone feel seen, heard, cared for, compassionate, fair-minded. She loved the water. She was a water polo player. She was a competitive swimmer. Did that all through high school. She had her whole life ahead of her. And see, you know, like a sponge, she soaked in life, every piece of it, and she was only 20. We still had so many plans ahead of us that were, you know, that are just gone because of reckless policies,” he added.

Fox News Digital reached out to Porter’s campaign for comment.

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A group of Mississippi middle school students jumped into action this week to stop a school bus after the driver lost consciousness on a highway, preventing a potential crash.

About 40 students from Hancock Middle School were on board when their driver, Leah Taylor, 46, suffered an asthma attack shortly after leaving campus, according to The Associated Press.

Taylor attempted to grab her medication but passed out before she could reach it.

Without hesitation, the students sprang into action to keep the bus from crashing.

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Sixth grader Jackson Casnave, 12, who was sitting behind the driver, noticed the bus begin to swerve. He rushed forward to grab the wheel and called for help.

“I didn’t have time to process my emotions,” Casnave said. “I just wanted to make sure that nobody got hurt.”

Darrius Clark, who is also 12, then hit the brakes, and the students steered the bus to a median and brought it to a stop.

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Clark’s sister, Kayleigh, 13, called 911, later saying she struggled to hear the operator over the screams from classmates.

“I was scared, but also I had to help,” Kayleigh said.

Eighth grader Destiny Cornelius, 15, saw the driver holding a nebulizer and helped administer the medication, while 13-year-old McKenzy Finch assisted.

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Finch also noticed the driver’s phone ringing and alerted the district’s transportation team about what had happened.

Taylor, who has since made a full recovery, praised the students for their actions.

“I’m grateful for my students,” Taylor said. “They’re the ones that saved my life and everybody else’s on that bus.”

The students were honored at a school pep rally Friday and are set to receive a celebratory lunch next week, The AP reported.

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“What they did took courage,” the school’s principal, Dr. Melissa Saucier, said. “They didn’t wait for somebody to step in, they stepped up themselves, and that says a lot about their character.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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The man accused of opening fire at the Washington Hilton Hotel during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has been identified as Cole Allen, 31, a computer scientist from Torrance, California who went from designing first-person shooter games to becoming an alleged shooter himself. 

According to his LinkedIn profile and online records, Allen’s life and career trace an accomplished path as a computer scientist, engineer and independent game developer, even building a shooter role-playing game called “First Law.”

In September 2013, according to his online profile, he enrolled in the highly competitive California Institute of Technology, known as CalTech, to pursue a BS in mechanical engineering, graduating in 2017. CalTech confirmed to Fox News Digital that a student named Cole Allen graduated from the school in 2017.

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In the summer of 2014, he wrote that he landed another competitive spot as a summer undergraduate research student fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he said he contributed to astrophysics research.

That summer, his profile says, he created “First Law,” a physics-based role-playing shooter game based on realistic two-dimensional space combat. At CalTech, he also built offensive and defensive robotic systems, according to his LinkedIn profile.

He later made “Bohrdom,” a complex 2-D physics-based video game that he described as a “combination of a racing game with a bullet hell as experienced by self-propelled pinballs,” released on the popular Steam gaming platform, according to his profile.

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Beginning in March 2020, his LinkedIn profile says, he joined C2 Education, a tutoring company, enrolling at California State University, Dominguez Hills, in 2022 to pursue an MS in computer science, graduating in May 2025. That school also confirmed that a person by the same name graduated with a master’s degree that year. 

A Dec. 30, 2024 Facebook post from C2 Education congratulated “Cole Allen of C2 Education Torrence on being honored as December teacher of the month.” A photo matching that of Allen was attached to the post. 

According to Federal Election Commission records, Allen donated $25 to Kamala Harris during the 2024 election cycle.

During a news conference late Saturday night, authorities said that Allen rushed a Secret Service checkpoint at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner armed with multiple weapons. He then opened fire on a Secret Service officer, who was taken to the hospital after he was shot in his ballistic vest.

Agents fired back at Allen, who was not struck. He was also taken to the hospital. 

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United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro told reporters at the press conference that Allen has been charged with two counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence and assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon. Pirro said that more charges are expected. 

President Donald Trump was whisked away from the venue by Secret Service along with First Lady Melania Trump and other high-level cabinet officials. 

Trump described Allen as a “lone wolf” and a “very sick person.” 

No other injuries were reported. 

Fox News Digital reached out to C2 Education.

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An illegal migrant is accused of biting a 3-year-old girl in the face during an attack at a Texas park, authorities said, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has lodged a detainer against the suspect after his arrest.

Gabriella Perez, 27, and her daughter, Amelia Perez, 3, were walking at Espada Park April 18 when they were allegedly attacked by 24-year-old Atharva Vyas, an Indian national, according to San Antonio police.

Police said Vyas assaulted the mother by pulling her hair and punching her, causing her to drop her daughter, and then attacked the child and bit her face.

The case has drawn scrutiny because Vyas had previously been arrested for an alleged felony assault months after entering the U.S. in 2023, but he was not removed from the country, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

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Witnesses restrained Vyas until officers arrived, according to police.

The child’s mother later described the attack as something “out of a zombie movie.”

Since the attack, Perez created a GoFundMe page, saying her daughter lost two teeth and “has needed constant care, comfort, and reassurance.”

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“She is unable to return to daycare or be left with anyone else, so I have had to take time away from work to be by her side,” the page’s description states.

Vyas was charged with injury to a child with intent to cause bodily injury, assault causing bodily injury and illegal entry, according to authorities. He was booked into the Bexar County Detention Center.

ICE has lodged a detainer requesting that local authorities transfer Vyas to federal custody after his criminal proceedings, according to DHS.

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DHS said Vyas first entered the United States in August 2023 on a student visa. Three months later, he was arrested on the University of Texas campus on charges of felony assault, and university police contacted ICE.

According to DHS, “the Biden Admin determined the crime was not egregious enough to warrant visa revocation and decided to take no enforcement action against Vyas.”

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Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis condemned the earlier decision not to revoke Vyas’ visa.

“This criminal illegal alien brutally bit this child and caused her to lose two teeth. This barbaric assault against this woman and her 3-year-old in a park was completely preventable,” she said. 

“The Biden administration never should have released this animal following his arrest for assault. We are working with our partners in Texas to ensure this criminal illegal alien never roams free in American communities again.”

DHS did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for additional comment.