How This Man’s Romantic Stroll Was Tragically Interrupted Will Leave You Shook

A Black Virginia man is grieving the loss of his wife after she was fatally struck by a car in what police suspect was an intentional car crash.

Derek Bizzell tells KCRG he and his wife, Shaunda, were on a walk in their neighborhood of Chesterfield, Virginia, Monday evening. He said it was the first time his wife joined her for one of his regular strolls. Yet, on their second lap around the neighborhood, Bizzell told reporters that he noticed a car veering from the middle of the road toward the sidewalk where they were walking.

By the time he and his wife realized what was happening, it was already too late.

“We walked around the curb. We could see a car coming up the middle of the street like cars always do, and then he got closer to us. I could see him veer. I screamed her name, and all I heard was the thump,” Bizzell said, via KCRG.

Bizzell said the impact of the car accident knocked him underneath the car while his wife landed on top of the car. He was left speechless when he dialed 911 until a neighbor who witnessed the incident took his phone and helped communicate what happened to the dispatcher, the report says.

The couple was rushed to the hospital, however, Shaunda was later pronounced dead. She is survived by her husband and two adult children.

“My wife was a beautiful soul, always had a pretty smile on her face, a genuine laugh, she had a love for God and family,” Bizzell told local news.

Police identified the driver as 22-year-old Daniel N. Anderson. They claim he intentionally rammed his vehicle into the couple after finding he had a troubling history of calling 911 to make threats of shooting a school, bombing a building or even assaulting police officers.

Anderson faces charges of second-degree murder and malicious wounding in addition to other charges related to the threats he allegedly made.