NYC man died in hit-and-run accident one day before his wedding

On Saturday, 38-year-old Kirk Walker and his cousin, 40-year-old Robert McLaurin, were driving a Dodge Challenger down the Henry Hudson Parkway in New York City. Walker was a prospective groom planning to marry his fiancée, Shauntea Weaver. He and his cousin were on their way to his bachelor party.

But seemingly out of nowhere, a wrong-way driver driving behind a pickup truck slammed into their vehicle head-on, killing Walker and McLaurin almost instantly. Although the passenger was caught, the driver is still on the run.

According to the New York PostThe driver also collided with another car, a 2018 Audi S3, and both passengers were taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Walker leaves behind his fiancée and three children.

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“I should be wearing my wedding dress right now – not mourning,” Walker's devastated fiancée Shauntea Weaver, 40, told The Post on the day the couple were scheduled to tie the knot in a grand ceremony at the Royal Manor wedding venue in Garfield, New Jersey.

“I feel like this is a TV show and I'm going to wake up any minute and go back to my real life,” Weaver said. “Ever since it happened, I've had a different feeling every hour.”

The couple have built a successful car rental business that is thriving thanks to Walker's incredible hard work, she added.

Weaver called the crash “devastating, and not just for me.”

Khadija Walker, the sister and cousin of Walker and McLaurin, was a few vehicles behind the Dodge Challenger when the accident happened. She said ABC7 New York“I had to witness the tragedy. You don't know what we felt that night when we all had to lift my cousin's body and take it away from the burning car.”

She continued: “Huge black smoke, and traffic comes to a standstill, and you don't understand why. And you're walking on glass and doors and airbags and oil, you're slipping because you can hardly reach them because there's so much oil on the ground.”

During a press conference on Tuesday New York Mayor Eric Adams offered to donate $1,000 of his money as a reward for the arrest and conviction of the mysterious driver responsible for the tragic deaths of Walker and McLaurin.

Weaver organized a GoFundMe in memory of her fiancé and his cousin.