The Andrew McMorris Foundation is thrilled again to announce another record-breaking year for our scholarships, grants, and spirit awards.

Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon teamed up this week with Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the parents of a 12-year-old Boy Scout killed by a drunk driver in 2018 to prevent tragedy during one of the deadliest times of year for motorists.

This summer, Andrew McMorris would have been 17 years old.

But the bright-eyed child from Wading River was killed when he was 12 in 2018 after a drunk driver in an SUV plowed into his Boy Scout troop, which was hiking the Greenbelt Trail in Manorville.

“We don’t want what happened to us to happen to anyone else,” his father John McMorris said on Thursday, at a press conference with Suffolk County Sheriff Errol D. Toulon, Jr. and Mothers Against Drunk Driving to spotlight significantly increased, countywide DWI enforcement this summer.

A family who knows the pain of drinking and driving stood alongside officials as they made their announcement about patrols on Wednesday.

Alisa McMorris lost her 12-year-old son to a drunk driver in Manorville in 2018.

"Andrew was taken from this Earth too soon, and this is how we move forward, by trying to prevent someone else from going through something so horrible," McMorris says.

Suffolk County Sheriff Errol D. Toulon, Jr. was recently joined by the McMorris Family and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Regional Director Paige Carbone to announce a summer STOP DWI campaign, Operation HEAT, which aims to ramp up already increased efforts that include the highest number of DWI patrols and arrests in recent Sheriff’s Office history.

A Wading River family shattered by grief after their son, Andrew, 12, was killed by a drunk driver in 2018 while out on a hike with his Boy Scout troop, has worked tirelessly to create change so that no other family has to endure that agony. And now, they've teamed up with law enforcement and Mothers Against Drunk Driving to keep Long Island roadways safe this summer.

The family of Andrew McMorris, who was killed by a drunken driver, joined with Suffolk Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. as he announced stepped up DWI patrol. NewsdayTV's Cecilia Dowd reports.

FOX 5 NY's Jodi Goldberg has more on how one Long Island family hopes their heartbreaking story will save lives.

CBS News: Drunk and drugged driving is 100% preventable, say the parents of Boy Scout Andrew McMorris. Their son was killed by a driver who refused a sober ride home.Now, the family is partnering with a Long Island holiday summer drunk driving campaign that will begin with increased DWI patrols and checkpoints next Wednesday, July 4.

Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon recently joined roadway safety advocates, including the Andrew McMorris Foundation, to announce a summer campaign targeting drunk driving.

A state appeals court has denied a new trial for the Holbrook man convicted of killing Wading River Boy Scout Andrew McMorris and injuring two other teens in a drunken driving crash in Manorville in 2018.

Thank you for joining AMF at Duck Pond Day in Wading River. Thank you to everyone who stopped by, bought merch and donated. We truly appreciate all your support. Peace & Love to you all!

AMF attended Walk Like MADD and helped advocate for legislative change in New York State.

The Andrew McMorris Foundation and McMorris Family would like to send a heartfelt thank you to the All Star Dance academy for dancing for Andrew in the Kindness Matter Power of Dance Competition.

Andrew’s 2nd Top Gun Run was an overwhelming success and we have so many people to thank. Please know that each one of you from our sponsors, donors, volunteers and runners helped us put our pain to purpose and have an amazing event in honor of Andrew.

Runners hit the pavement Saturday morning in Calverton in honor of a late Boy Scout from Wading River

Andrew's Top Gun Run 5K honors the life of 12-year-old Andrew McMorris, who was struck and killed by a drunk driver as he was hiking with Boy Scout Troop 161 in Manorville in September 2018.

Saturday marked what would have been Andrew’s 17th birthday.

Through rain and at times, hail, determined runners took to a runway in Calverton Saturday in honor of a Boy Scout who once dreamed of soaring through the skies.

The second annual Andrew’s Top Gun 5K was held in honor of Andrew McMorris, who was killed by a drunk driver while hiking along the Greenbelt Trail in Manorville in September 2018.

“We see Andrew’s friends growing up around us, but Andrew is frozen in time at 12 and a half,” his mother, Alisa, said Sunday. “By bringing people together, what we’re finding is that our community remembers.”

CALVERTON, NY — Andrew McMorris of Wading River, a Boy Scout who was killed by a drunk driver in 2018 while out on a hike with his Boy Scout troop when he was just 12 years old, had dreams that soared. He loved aviation and longed to be a pilot one day — until his life was cut cruelly short.

To honor his beautiful life, his family, the Suffolk County Council of Boy Scouts and the Andrew McMorris Foundation will once again host "Andrew’s Top Gun Run 5K" to celebrate what would have been Andrew’s 17th birthday — along with his passion for aviation and Scouting.

ALBANY, N. Y.—Alisa McMorris totes a wagon filled with leaflets and a picture of her son Andrew, who was killed by a drunken driver in 2018, as she makes the rounds in the state capitol.

The 49-year-old Long Island woman, a member of the advocacy group Mothers Against Drunk Driving, is pressing legislators to pass a new state law that she says could decrease such tragedies: lowering the legal threshold for what constitutes driving under the influence of alcohol.

On March 25, participants will gather for the second annual Top Gun Run to benefit the Andrew McMorris Foundation and Suffolk County Council of Boy Scouts. This 5K run/walk will take place on an actual runway at the EPCAL property in Calverton, NY. The race is named after Boy Scout Andrew McMorris, who was killed by a drunk driver while hiking the Greenbelt Trail in Manorville with his Boy Scout Troop. Several other Scouts were severely injured as a result of this tragic crash. The lives of his family, friends, community and fellow scouts were forever changed by Andrew’s loss.