from Stacy Jackson

27 August 2024

The 38-year-old fiancé and his cousin were traveling together in a car when they were hit by an oncoming pickup truck that was driving in the wrong direction.

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Shauntea Weaver is mourning the loss of her fiancé Kirk Walker, 38, who was killed in a wrong-way driving accident in Harlem on August 24, one day before their wedding.

“I should actually be wearing my wedding dress now – not in mourning,” Weaver said The New York Post on Sunday, August 25. “Our ceremony was supposed to be at 5 p.m. today – in a few hours.” The father of three was celebrating his bachelor party when a pickup truck traveling the wrong way struck Walker’s Dodge Challenger on the Henry Hudson Parkway at around 2:20 a.m. Rob McLaurin, Walker’s 40-year-old cousin who was in the car with him, also died in the morning’s head-on collision near West 154th Street.

“He died 24 hours before our wedding,” said Weaver, who was looking forward to becoming a bride at the Royal Manor in Garfield, New Jersey. “It’s devastating, and not just for me,” she added. “Every hour since it happened, I’ve had a different feeling.” The bride-to-be, 40, said her fiancé’s three children loved him “immeasurably” and were heartbroken by his death. She described Walker as generous and hardworking. “He had a heart of gold,” she said of her lover and business partner, whom she thanked for the success of a car rental business they ran together.

Accordingly ABC7Both occupants of the pickup truck fled the scene. The passenger was caught, but police are still looking for the driver. Weaver said The post that the passenger was taken to hospital with broken legs. Investigators reported that DNA traces were found on the driver’s airbags and assured that they would do everything possible to obtain justice.

On August 25, loved ones gathered in Bergenfield to comfort Weaver and the family. Messages of prayers and condolences poured in on social media under a post by Akilañ Ke-Ki Woods, who referred to the two victims as her cousins.

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