My friend died last night, 21 years old

[kevinthenerd]

He was on the side of the road in the rain helping a stranded motorist and was killed by a driver who was probably drunk. (It hasn't been officially confirmed, but I don't know... A lot of drunks drive that stretch coming to and from the clubs in Orlando. How can you hit a person with lethal force and not particularly notice it?)

The Florida Today article
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200661101010

His Myspace:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...ion=user.viewprofile&friendid=40749830

 

[thescreensavers]

 

[ThePresence]

I had a close friend who died in similiar circumstances several years ago. My condolences.

 

[Joemonkey]

"According to the highway patrol report, Jeffrey Murray, 4650 Zoltan Drive, Titusville, came over the overpass in his 1999 Nissan Maxima, saw the pickup truck and heard something strike his vehicle. He pulled over and discovered he?d hit Berglund, who died from his injuries."

ugh...

 

[allisolm]

Such a shame. I'm so sorry for your loss.:brokenheart:

 

[krunchykrome]

 

[So]

 

[jdini76]

my condolences.

Is it normal for the new to report exact street addresses? or is this the police blotter.

 

[ElFenix]

 

[ForumMaster]

srry for your loss dude.

 

[kevinthenerd]

Originally posted by: jdini76
my condolences.

Is it normal for the new to report exact street addresses? or is this the police blotter.

He was in the middle of a name change that apparently hadn't gone through all the way. I guess this is so people can identify him more easily. It's a very long story.... he was getting it changed to Ace Danger Gambino.

 

[JRich]

I'm sorry for your loss. WTH is up with the drunk drivers lately?!?!

 

[razor2025]

Another reminder to be very careful when getting out to the road-side on ANY roads. If you feel danger, just move to passenger side and get out from that side.

 

[Chrono]

Sorry to hear man. I fvckin' hate drunk drivers!!!!!!!!!

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: kevinthenerd

Originally posted by: jdini76
my condolences.

Is it normal for the new to report exact street addresses? or is this the police blotter.

He was in the middle of a name change that apparently hadn't gone through all the way. I guess this is so people can identify him more easily. It's a very long story.... he was getting it changed to Ace Danger Gambino.

sorry for the loss but he was getting his name changed to Ace Danger Gambino??????

 

[kevinthenerd]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: kevinthenerd

Originally posted by: jdini76
my condolences.

Is it normal for the new to report exact street addresses? or is this the police blotter.

He was in the middle of a name change that apparently hadn't gone through all the way. I guess this is so people can identify him more easily. It's a very long story.... he was getting it changed to Ace Danger Gambino.

sorry for the loss but he was getting his name changed to Ace Danger Gambino??????

He hated his name because of his family situation. I didn't like prying too much on that out of fear of bringing up something he would have rather forgotten, and I'd rather not talk too much about it online. He wanted Danger as a middle name so he could claim, with honesty, "Danger is my middle name" just like Austin Powers. He was quite a funny guy who didn't overcomplicate life with seriousness.

He's been into a decent amount of trouble, but he recently started going to church again. It's interesting that he's now essentially a martyr, killed trying to help someone. That makes this a lot easier for me to handle, but I guess too that it hasn't set in yet. I got the phone call this morning from another friend.

 

[bleeb]

man that sucks.

 

[j00fek]

RIP

 

[moshquerade]

condolences.

you hear this every once in awhile, the good samaritan pays with his life for helping someone out. sorry it was your friend this time.

 

[InlineFive]

Wow, it seems like more and more people are being killed by drunk drivers.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: JRich
I'm sorry for your loss.

WTH is up with the drunk drivers lately?!?!

 

[Hyperlite]

sorry for your loss...there needs to be a serious crack down on drunk driving.

 

[silverpig]

Sorry to hear that.

 

[thoro86]

sorry to hear that OP!

 

[jpeyton]

Hopefully this wasn't alcohol related, but it's sad either way.