Kirk Walker groom to be & cousin, Rob McLaurin killed in NYC wrong way crash one day before wedding as authorities now seek to arrest driver who fled fatal crash scene.
A groom-to-be and his cousin were killed by a hit-and-run driver in NYC just hours before the man’s wedding.
Kirk Walker, and his cousin, Rob McLaurin, were killed by a wrong-way driver on the Henry Hudson Parkway in Harlem, NYC in the early hours of Saturday morning, as they were coming back from the groom to be’s bachelor party.
Walker, a 38-year-old father of three from Manhattan, was ’slated’ to get married to his fiancée, Shauntea Weaver, 40, at 5pm on Sunday at the Royal Manor wedding venue in Garfield, New Jersey.
Wrong way driver flees crash scene
But the wedding didn’t go through.
Walker and McLaurin, 40, were killed when their Dodge Challenger was hit head-on by a pickup truck barreling down the wrong way of the parkway at 2:20am according to KABC-TV.
Walker and McLaurin both died at the scene of the collision, which turned their car into a mangled mass of black and orange metal.
The driver reportedly ran away from the collision, and as of Monday had yet to be arrested. A passenger who was in the pick-up truck was taken to a local hospital for treatment. It is not currently known if the passenger has been arrested or charged in relation to the crash.
Told Weaver told via the nypost: ‘He died 24 hours before our wedding. It’s devastating, and not just for me. He has three children that loved him immeasurably. They are heartbroken that their father’s been taken.
‘He was such a generous, hard-working man. He had a heart of gold and would do anything for anybody. Such a hard worker.’
A fiancee seeks justice for her would be husband
The couple worked at a successful car rental business they started together, which Weaver said was all thanks to her late fiance’s dedication.
‘He put his blood, sweat and tears into it — we both did.’
She says all she wants now is justice for Walker.
‘Nothing will bring him back. But we are seeking justice. The detectives looked me right in my face and said that they were going to do everything they could to get justice.
‘They told me the driver left his DNA on the airbags. So they have that. Also the passenger is in the hospital with broken legs and he needs to speak up.
‘Two lives were lost in a reckless car crash,’ the fiancee continued. ‘They need to pay for killing two innocent people.’
At a vigil for the two men, Walker’s mother was seen wearing a ‘mother of the groom’ shirt, which she said she would’ve been wearing at her son’s wedding.
‘This is what we’re supposed to be wearing today … But they took my baby. He wanted this wedding so, so much. And my nephew, they took my nephew, too’, Susan Walker said.
Father Kirk Walker Sr. said: ‘My heart aches so much, and I’m really angry. I’m angry.’
He said he had a message for the hit-and-run driver: ‘I want them to see my face. I just want them to know, it ain’t over. It’s not over.’
Added Weaver as she attended her husband to be’s vigil, ‘I feel like I’m watching a fictitious TV show. Doesn’t seem real to me.’
‘I’m supposed to be with my husband. I’m not supposed to be here alone.’