'My Whole World Shattered': Family Of Baltimore Hit-And-Run Victim Tyrone Taylor Pleads For Answers
BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- The family of a Baltimore man who was killed in a hit-and-run crash earlier this week is pleading for answers as police continue their search for the driver.
Family members remember Tyrone Taylor, 51, as a humble, easy-going man.
"It's just devastating," Taylor's son Lattari Sample said. "He didn't deserve to go that way."
Police Searching For Driver In Fatal Hit-And-Run In SW Baltimore
Sample recalled the moment he answered the phone Wednesday morning to learn his dad was gone.
"Everything stood still for a second, like I just lost it," he said. "My whole world shattered."
Renee Chance, Taylor's fiancee, said he was on his way back from the store when he was hit.
"He had a beautiful heart and a beautiful spirit and I'm going to miss him because he was so good," she said.
Police believe the vehicle that hit Taylor was a dark-colored pickup truck and was last seen heading east on Edmonson Avenue.
Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call police.