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A groom-to-be was killed in a horrifying wrong-way crash in Manhattan early Saturday just one day before his wedding — leaving his heartbroken bride shattered on what should have been the happiest day of her life.
“I’m supposed to be in my wedding dress right now — not in mourning,” devastated fiancée Shauntea Weaver, 40, said Sunday after her would-be groom, Kirk Walker, and his cousin, Rob McLaurin, were killed by a wrong-way driver on the Henry Hudson Parkway in Harlem.
“I feel like this is a TV show and I’m going to wake up any minute and go back to my real life,” she revealed “Every hour since it happened, I’m having a different emotion take me over.”
Walker, a 38-year-old father of three from Manhattan, was celebrating his bachelor party ahead of his nuptials with McLaurin, 40, when their Dodge Challenger was hit head-on at about 2:20 a.m. by a pickup truck barreling down the wrong way of the parkway, according to police and a Facebook post.
Both men died during the collision, which turned the big, black-and-orange Challenger into a mangled ball of metal near West 154th Street.
Walker and Weaver were set to tie the knot in a huge ceremony at the Royal Manor wedding venue in Garfield, New Jersey, the despondent bride said.
A catering hall representative confirmed that the ceremony had been canceled due to “a fatal crash.”
“Our ceremony was supposed to be at 5:00 p.m. today — in a few hours,” Weaver said. “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,” she continued. “He had a heart of gold and would do anything for anybody. Such a hard worker.”
The couple had started a successful car rental business that had prospered thanks to Walker’s incredibly hard work, she added.
