3 Cars Hit, Kill N.J. Native: 2 Drive Away Without Helping, Report Says

An Essex County family is mourning the loss of 39-year-old Rasheed Wiggins after three cars reportedly hit him while he was walking home from a Florida Walgreens on Saturday night.

According to a report, only one of the three drivers stopped to help Wiggins, who grew up in Newark before moving to Maplewood as a teenager.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the tragic incident took place the intersection of Universal Boulevard and Destination Parkway, near Orlando's tourist corridor.

The Orlando Sentinel stated that Wiggins was standing in a grassy median when part of a car hit him, propelled him into the roadway and ran him over. Two more cars then reportedly rolled over his body.

Of the three motorists, only one - a taxi driver – stopped to help Wiggins, The Sentinel wrote.

Police are seeking two vehicles that fled the scene, a “newer white passenger vehicle” and an “older white passenger vehicle" with a female driver.

Investigators do not know which car killed Wiggins, The Sentinel reported.

Wiggins earned two degrees from Duke University and was a 1995 graduate of St. Benedict's Preparatory School in Newark, NJ.com stated.

An online fundraising campaign for his wife, Kimberly Holmes Wiggins, has garnered an enormous outpouring of support, raising $32,735 from 416 donors as of Thursday morning.

“Rasheed was a marketing manager, a double Duke alum from undergrad and for his MBA, a black belt martial arts expert, and a sweet, soft-spoken man who everyone loved,” the campaign states. “If you know Kim or Rasheed from Dhahran, Texas, New Jersey, Duke, Columbia, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, or any of the other communities that they have touched in their short lives, you know what amazing people they are.”

“Kim is hoping to start a scholarship fund in his memory,” a campaign update stated.

See the online fundraising campaign here.

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