Bicyclist Killed in a Carjacking Hit and Run

A 28-year old bicyclist was killed yesterday, right down the road near the neighborhood ice cream shop.

The guy who hit him was driving a car he’d just carjacked which had a two-year-old in the back seat. He was running from police, going at least 90 mph.

The 28-year-old, Devaughn Payne, was riding back home from work, something he loved doing every day. He was only a few blocks away from his house when the car came speeding at him.

The suspect later hit a car, then a tree, and was arrested. The two-year-old wasn’t hurt. But before Devaughn could make sense out of what had just happened, he blacked out and would never wake up again. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

And that was the end.

That was the last thing his mom would ever hear about what he was up to. That mom will always look at her child and remember the night the road right near his house was the crime scene where it all happened.

The ice cream shop’s staff will remember the night their tall glass windows, normally showing customers laughing and in good company, was instead the scene of a man flying through the air, taking his last breath, with red and blue lights surrounding him.

Meanwhile, the man in front of the cashier is asking for extra hot fudge on his sundae. And it just seems so wrong; we need a minute.

The one employee’s van was parked right across the street. She thinks there may still be parts of the man’s bicycle underneath it. But a day later, and she still hasn’t been able to bring herself to move the car and look at what she might find. It’ll stay there for right now. Just for a minute.

A neighbor lit a candle on the pole for the nearby street sign. The cop listened back to his reporting over the dispatch, thinking the suspect first hit a car, not a bike.

But it was a bike.

And he was a great guy, everyone said.

And it just seems so wrong.