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.
Meanwhile, the driver of the deadly wrong-way pickup truck is still on the loose — the person took off shortly after the accident, as did the pickup’s passenger.
The passenger was collared about 30 feet from the crash, however, and brought to a local hospital.
