Anguished bride-to-be speaks out after fiance Kirk Walker killed in horrific wrong-way crash on NYC highway
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 was supposed to be 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 told The Post. “Every hour since it happened, I’m having a different emotion take me over.”
Walker, 38, of 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 careening the wrong way on the parkway, according to police and a Facebook post.
Both men died during the collision, which left the big, black-and-orange Challenger crumpled into a shattered ball of metal near West 154th Street.
Walker and Weaver were set to tie the knot in a huge ceremony at a wedding venue in Garfield, New Jersey, the despondent bride said.
A representative at Royal Manor in Garfield, New Jersey — the venue for the wedding — confirmed that the ceremony had been canceled due to “a fatal crash.”
Walker and McLaurin, were driving a black-and-orange Dodge Challenger north on the Henry Hudson Parkway near West 154th Street at around 2:20 a.m. when a pickup truck smashed into them head-on as it careened down the highway, according to police and sources.
Both men died during the vicious collision, which left the big Challenger crumpled into a shattered ball of metal.
A woman on social media identified Walker as a “neighborhood ‘nephew’ to all the homies in the hood” who had been out for his bachelor party — he was supposed to get married Sunday, she wrote.
“His cousin from NC that came up for the wedding also died,” the woman, Alexis Stewart, wrote on Facebook.
