Arron Jones, 22, the bicyclist killed on Route 19 in Cranberry Township, had gifted e-bikes to his two brothers, said his mother, Cameo Curtis.

Following Jones’ death on Tuesday, Nov. 21, the brothers vowed to never ride them again, Curtis said.

Curtis said she hopes that changes, but said it is too dangerous to bike around Cranberry’s roads.

“The traffic’s bad,” she said.

Curtis said her son was in the process of getting his driver’s license when he was killed.

She shared that he was wearing reflective strips on his jacket, a headlight and other lights on his bicycle that he had implemented himself.

Before the accident, Jones had finished his shift at Eat ‘N’ Park and called his mother, Cameo Curtis, to meet her at Giant Eagle, she said.

“The last thing I heard from him was two or three minutes before he got killed,” she said. “He said, ‘I’ll meet you at Giant Eagle.’ I told him, I’ll come and get you, and he said, ‘I’m already on my way.’”

A graduate of Seneca Valley School District, Jones was on the autism spectrum, his mother said. He lived at home with his family, working two jobs in the cafeteria at Ehrman Crest Elementary and as a dishwasher at Eat ’n Park to help pay the bills.

“He had autism, so some things were difficult for him, but he was very friendly, he was liked by just about everyone who met him,” Curtis said. “He liked to joke around, and he was into bikes. I don’t know how many bikes he owned.”

She said Curtis was working on getting his driver’s license because it was safer to drive, and he had at one point planned to work at a car dealership that required employees to have driver’s licenses.

“With the weather getting colder, it’s harder to ride a bike in the snow and he knew it,” Curtis said.

Jones was planning to switch jobs before his death, Curtis said, and was excited as he hoped to work at National Tire and Battery. Jones had been part of Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School in high school, and loved taking machinery apart and fixing it. He often made improvements to his bicycle, and helped make repairs to mechanical equipment around the house, she said.

“He wanted to get away from being a dishwasher,” Curtis said. “He had his whole life ahead of him.”

At home, he helped take care of the family’s ducks and basset hounds, helped with gardening and taking care of his great-aunt, who is bedridden, Curtis said. If a neighbor called asking for his help, Curtis said her son would drop what he was doing at home to help them.

“He was a really good person,” Curtis said.

An Eagle Scout with Troop 399 of Evans City, Jones wanted to complete the studies associated with becoming a troop leader, and mentored his younger brother, who was working to become an Eagle Scout, Curtis said. She said Jones had also been an altar server at St. Matthias Catholic Church in Evans City and St. Gregory Catholic Church in Zelienople.

“I just realized what a big impact he made in our lives,” Curtis said.

Curtis said her son loved getting people to come together.

“He’d go camping with Boy Scouts, and get them to break out in song,” she said. “When nobody was doing anything, he was the first person to start singing. It was him.”

“He had an awful voice,” she chuckled.

Curtis, who works at a pet grooming salon Reigning Cats & Dogs, which is owned by her aunt, said her son also loved helping with the animals.

“He would ask, ‘When are you going to give the dogs mohawks?’” she said. “If it was his decision, every dog coming out would have a mohawk.”

Jones’ older sister, Melody, described him as generous, funny and caring.

“He was so kind and he loved helping people in need,” she said.

She said her little brother had taken on the two jobs to help support the family as their great-aunt had been experiencing health issues.

Melody Jones, who lives in Arizona, said she flew out as soon as she learned of her brother’s death. She visited the family last week, but wasn’t able to see Jones because he was at work.

The last time Melody Jones had seen her brother was in June. Jones had attended his first concert to see Ed Sheeran perform, she said.

Jones told his sister he and their other brothers wanted to travel to Arizona this coming summer to visit her.

“He was that annoying little brother that any big sister would love to have,” Melody Jones said. “Because of him — I am — he made me — a big sister. Without him, I wouldn’t be the person I am.”

As children, Melody Jones said she and her little brother would take dance classes. She recalled one dance recital, when he was about 8 years old, and how much fun he seemed to be having.

“That moment of us performing on stage will always be there in my heart,” she said.

As a child, she said her little brother would try to make everyone laugh and smile by making funny faces.

“He always had this big smile on his face that would light up the room,” she said. “He definitely knew how to make me laugh. He was very caring, and we took care of each other.”