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My wife is the office manager at the church this incident happened. Driver ran and hid in woods all night then turned himself in when he sobered up later that evening. Because of the screwed up laws here, all you have to do is hide until sober and nothing will happen to you as far as the DUI.
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January 2006
Visitations will be held in Pickering today for a Canadian gospel singer killed in a hit and run outside a South Carolina church.
Warren Parker, a 34-year-old member of the Parker Trio, died on Saturday evening when he was sandwiched (polite term seeing that the side of the bus was crushed in more than 3 feet) between the group's tour bus and an oncoming pickup truck. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
"We know that Warren is absent from the body but present with the Lord," said Brian Parker, his father. "That's our comfort."
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Mr. Parker was preparing to play at Cavalry Church of the Nazarene in South Carolina (Goose Creek) on Sunday morning (Just after midnight) when he was killed. He was trying to direct traffic around the band's tour bus when the driver of a pickup truck hit him and ran off on foot.
Brandt White was driving the bus.
''I opened the door and first I looked straight ahead. And I looked down and here was Warren at my feet. And he was literally in a pile,'' Mr. White told a South Carolina TV station.
Shannan Parker told the station she was asleep inside the bus when it happened. (this was a full size tour bus. The hit was so violent that she was thrown to the floor from her bed)
''They wouldn't let me see him. But, by the looks of the truck out of the bus window and the fact that there were no sirens leaving, I knew, I knew he was gone.''
Sid Gaulden, a spokesman for the South Carolina Department of Public Safety, said a suspect surrendered to South Carolina Highway Patrol officers yesterday afternoon. Timothy Baker, 35, of Goose Creek, S.C., was charged with one count of leaving the scene of an accident involving death. (he was also driving a company vehicle from a local bar on a suspended license)
Brian Parker, 59, said he holds nothing against whoever was driving the truck that killed his son.
"Yes, he is responsible for killing my son," he said. "But I firmly believe we have an appointed time in our lives when we pass away." | 
