By Andree Farias

In candid, hope-filled interviews with "Good Morning America" and "Larry King Live" aired last week, Steven Curtis Chapman and his family opened up for the first time about the tragic death of Maria Sue Chapman, the singer’s youngest daughter and third adoptive child.

The GRAMMY® winner, his wife and their three biological children shared moving, sobering testimonies and anecdotes surrounding the May 21 passing of Maria, who died when she was accidentally hit by the SUV her teenage brother was driving.

“You will hear all of us talk about the process of grieving with hope,” Chapman told Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts, who visited the family in their home near Franklin, Tenn., in July. “That’s what has kept us breathing, kept us alive.”

The at-times somber conversations were accompanied by touching visuals that included intimate family portraits, charming home videos featuring Maria, as well as never-before-seen footage from the funeral.

Both interviews, which came nearly three months since the 5-year-old’s death, also marked the first time Will Franklin, who was driving the vehicle that killed Maria, talked about the accident.

“I didn’t want to be at the house; I just wanted to be away,” Will Franklin said of the moments immediately following the tragedy. Overcome with guilt, the 17-year-old said he ran from the scene, only to be chased and tackled by his big brother Caleb.

“When you see someone hurting, and you see someone burdened, you want to take that burden from them,” Caleb, 18, said.

Will Franklin was pulling into their home’s driveway when Maria, who was in the backyard playing with her sisters, ran into the path of the vehicle, Mary Beth (Chapman’s wife) said.

Chapman was on the front porch taking a break from writing music for the October wedding of their eldest daughter, Emily—she had just gotten engaged the week before—when he heard the commotion and ran to the back to find Will Franklin holding a badly injured Maria in his arms.

Due to the seriousness of the injuries and the blood, Chapman said he couldn’t immediately tell which of his daughters had been hit, but that didn’t keep him and his wife from calling 911 and frantically administering CPR. Not long after, Maria was being airlifted to Vanderbilt Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.

Chapman said the chain of events were all a blur, but was told that just as he was leaving for the hospital, he took the time to yell out loudly to his son Will Franklin, “Your father still loves you.”

“I just had a really deep concern in my heart that I wouldn’t lose two children as a result of this, ‘cause I knew what Will was struggling with,” Chapman said.

The family said the weeks and months that followed have been a rollercoaster of emotions ranging from grief and pain to hope and the promise of seeing Maria again.