555 Lubbock (A Tribute to Eric, Nicholas and Matt)<\/a>\u201d was recently released by Natalea Sharp. The song honors Eric Hill, Nicholas Reyna, and Matt Dawson.<\/p>\nAll three were hit by a car while responding to a crash along I-27 back in January of 2020. Hill and Reyna were killed, and Dawson suffered a traumatic brain injury. He later died from complications in 2023.<\/p>\n
Hill\u2019s family created 5-5-5, an organization dedicated to protecting first responders. It calls for people to plan 5 daily options for trip safety, act on 5 daily trip safety considerations, and hug 5 loved ones daily.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want people to have fewer accidents, fewer people hurt, and to of course keep our first responders safe,\u201d Mark Hill, Eric\u2019s father and the president of 5-5-5, said.<\/p>\n
5-5-5\u2019s mission is also inspiring people like Sharp who do not have direct ties to first responders.<\/p>\n
Sharp said she first discovered the organization when she spotted its billboard on a road trip to Amarillo.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was bawling my eyes out all the way up to Amarillo and on the way back I thought \u2018I\u2019m going to write a song\u2019. I\u2019m going to write a song for these boys,\u201d Sharp said. \u201cAt the time, I didn\u2019t even care if it went anywhere or not. I just wanted to write a song because I have the ability to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
After writing \u2019555 Lubbock,\u2019 Sharp shared it with the Hill, Reyna, and Dawson families.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just sat in the car and cried for a little while,\u201d Hill said.<\/p>\n
Together, they decided to share it with the public. Sharp listed it on her website and is donating all of the money from the song\u2019s sale back to 5-5-5.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe more money they can raise, the better the foundation can help other people,\u201d Sharp said. \u201cThey have the same mission I do \u2013 they want to help other people. And it\u2019s an unfortunate situation that they lost their boys for that to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hill says 5-5-5 is now primarily dependent on donations, which is why contributions from the song are so appreciated.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s things like what Natalea has done that warms your heart to know that someone out there is thinking about you and there are things bigger than you,\u201d Hill said.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s more that just the song\u2019s support for 5-5-5 that touched Hill\u2019s heart. He says it\u2019s how it carries the legacies of Eric, Matt, and Nicholas.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt touched someone\u2019s life so much that they opened up and wrote this beautiful song about that day and the things that happened,\u201d Hill said. \u201cWe\u2019re just so thankful that people still relate to that and still feel a small amount of our pain.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sharp says she hopes to work with the families to create a full album honoring their sons. In the meantime, you can purchase \u201c555 Lubbock\u201d on her website: nataleasharpmusic.com<\/a>. <\/p>\nCopyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – A Lubbock singer-songwriter is paying tribute to three first responders who gave their lives…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-222122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}