Josh Wilson, 40, was driving to his hotel room in Myrtle Beach last month with his family when they stopped at a gas station, where a stranger asked him for a ride.
West Virginia Man Found Dead On Vacation After Offering A Stranger Lift
A selfless West Virginia man was discovered dead after picking up a stranger whilst vacationing in South Carolina, according to his widow.
Josh Wilson, 40, was traveling to his hotel room in Myrtle Beach with his family last month while they stopped at a fuel station, where a stranger begged him for a ride, according to The Sun News.
As reported by the outlet, Wilson, who was vacationing from Parkersburg, West Virginia, agreed to offer the unfamiliar man a ride after dropping off his family.
“I didn’t think anything of it because he does it all the time,” his wife, Staci, stated.
Wilson, though, was later discovered in his car with bullet wounds, according to the news source. On July 10, he was transferred to a hospital and removed from life support.
In accordance with a story broadcast in mid-July by a local ABC TV station, cops believe that the individual who requested for the lift was not the one who murdered the 40-year-old West Virginian.
Authorities have arrested Quentin Ahmad Jean, 35, in connection with the murder, but concerns about Wilson's dying moments linger.
The Sun News said that Josh Wilson's wife is "trying to stay strong for the kids."
“I went to the beach with my husband and came back alone. He died a day before my birthday,” recalled. “People were telling me happy birthday, but I don’t care. I honestly never want to celebrate it again.”
The bereaved widow characterized her deceased husband as selfless and kind.
“He was always kind to everybody. It didn’t matter if you were homeless, a struggling addict, if you were rich. He was nice and he tried to help out everybody and that’s how we got in this situation.”
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“Nobody deserves to be taken away from their nephews, their kids, their wife, who all really loved him and knew him as a person,” she added. “He didn’t deserve that. We were supposed to leave as a family on the sixth. We were supposed to go back to work on the seventh. … He said he wanted to grow old with me, sit on porch swings and watch the grandkids.”