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‘Our Entire World was Turned Upside Down’: Missouri Mother of Five Starts a GoFundMe After Stay-At-Home Dad Killed in a Road Rage Accident

A family of six is left without a father after he was killed in July during a suspected road rage incident. Now his fiancée has launched a crowdfunding campaign to provide emergency support to the five children, including his first son that was born a month after his premature death.

Authorities believe that sometime near 12:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 16, Marvin Yancey was shot and killed. Police found his dead body slumped in his white Chevy Tahoe that was smashed into a tree in a yard in the 8200 block of Blue Ridge Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri, according to Fox 4 News.

The vehicle had crashed, an accident believed to have been connected to a violent altercation with another driver, KansasCity.com reported.

Police were called after someone heard gunshots, but the report was a block away on 83rd Street and their investigation came up short. However, by 11 a.m., another call came through the dispatch, reporting a person seriously injured in a vehicle.

The 36-year-old left behind a family that consisted of Marina Wilson, his soon-to-be wife, his four daughters (Marley 7, Maya 5, Milani 3, McKenzie 2) and his new son (Marvin Jr.), the child his partner was pregnant with when died. In addition to the emotional, sociological, economic, and psychological debt the family is now experiencing, they are also faced with another deficit left in the household by his absence: they lost the smashed SUV Yancey was found in.

Wilson says she now must quit her full-time job to “adjust to our family’s new normal.” A devoted father who was his children’s home school educator, Yancey stayed at home with the children. 

Wilson told KMBC, “He was a devoted dad. He was just really a family man, focused on his family.”

She also said she knew something was awry shortly after the accident, saying, “I could just, felt it, knew something was wrong because he still hadn’t returned home.”

The mom says he had gone to the bank that morning, but when she called and texted him and got no response, she became increasingly concerned. It was not until later that night, she found out what had happened.

Her children’s father had been murdered. Police called her to share the devastating news.

“I really just blacked out ’cause I really just could not, I really couldn’t take it after that,” she said.

“The hardest thing is, you know, seeing the kids suffer,” she continued. “Them every day telling me they miss their dad.”

Weeks later, Wilson launched a GoFundMe page, hoping to raise $70,000. Four days in the campaign has raised less than $9,000.

The mother, who calls herself a widow, wrote, “Our entire world was turned upside down in the blink of an eye. My fiancé, Marvin was stolen from us in a tragic and senseless murder in a road rage incident.”

Over the weekend, the deceased’s namesake was born. The mom posted pictures of the baby on the campaign page. In one picture, the 2-year-old toddler is holding the infant with the caption reading, “Baby Marvin held by sister McKenzie wrapped in Daddy shirt for scent.” 

“He always kept a fresh T-shirt he would call it his comfortable Dad attire,” she informed.

She said in one interview, his death was “devastating.”

“[I] couldn’t believe it actually happened to us because we don’t do anything but raise our kids. That’s all we do,” she remarked. “I’m so hurt that he didn’t even get to hold his son,”

Law enforcement has named Charles Miller Jr. as the individual responsible for Yancey’s death, and he now faces several charges including second-degree murder and armed criminal action. 

Court documents said traffic cameras showed Yancey’s Tahoe and a silver sedan at the same intersection right before the reports of gunfire were made to 911. 

Investigators found the same silver car abandoned a ways from the altercation, discovering an AR-style rifle inside. Detectives suspected Miller used to kill Yancey with this weapon and brought it in for testing.

Forensics confirmed it was the same rifle used to take the young man’s life, authorities say. Miller is currently behind bars awaiting a court appearance scheduled for next week. 

Wilson wants him to be prosecuted for his crime.

“He took everything from us,” the bereaved mother said. “It’s not even settling for me right now, like, just all over a traffic incident.”

Yancey was not in the SUV alone around the time of the altercation. Court reports reveal an unnamed woman was with him in the vehicle that morning. She says the two were hanging out and drinking. 

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