FLINT, Mich. (TCN) — A 22-year-old man and 21-year-old woman were arrested just hours after being pronounced husband and wife for allegedly running over a groomsman after an argument, killing him.
On Aug. 30 at around 8 p.m., Flint Police Department officers responded to a call about a pedestrian injury crash on the 1400 block of East Hamilton Avenue. When they arrived, they found the victim, Terry Lewis Taylor Jr., with severe injuries. Paramedics transported him to a nearby hospital, where he died.
Investigators learned that Taylor, 29, attended James Shirah and Savanah Collier’s wedding earlier that day and served as one of Shirah’s groomsmen. Police said Taylor was “involved in an argument” after the wedding, “which led to him being intentionally struck by a large SUV that was traveling at a high rate of speed and driven by the groom.”
Shirah was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder, while Collier was booked on accessory after the fact.
Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton told WJRT-TV Taylor’s killing was a “terrible series of events,” adding, “You can’t take the law into your own hands. That’s apparently what happened here.”
Collier and Shirah allegedly fled the scene following the incident and hid until they turned themselves in.
Taylor’s fiancée, Nikki Robinson, said, “He was a father, a husband, a brother, a friend. He did have a past, but he was loved by so many people and loved so many in return. The man he was when he died was the opposite of who he used to be.”