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'He was a devoted dad:' Kansas City man killed in road-rage shooting

Marvin Yancey was a full-time dad to four young girls and was expecting his first son.

'He was a devoted dad:' Kansas City man killed in road-rage shooting

Marvin Yancey was a full-time dad to four young girls and was expecting his first son.

HE’LL NEVER GET TO MEET ONE TWO THREE. THIS WAS A FAVORITE PASTIME FOR MARVIN YANCEY AND HIS DAUGHTERS. WAS A FULL-TIME DAD. HOME TEACHER TO HIS FOUR GIRLS AGES TWO TO SEVEN. HE WAS JUST GREAT. BUT ON JULY 16TH THEIR LIVES WOULD CHANGE FOREVER WHEN HE WAS KILLED IN A ROAD RAGE SHOOTING AUGUST FILTHY. I JUST KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG BECAUSE THEY STILL HAVEN’T RETURNED HOME HIS FIANCE. MARINA WILSON SAYS, HE’D GONE TO THE BANK THAT MORNING. SHE GOT A CALL FROM POLICE THAT NIGHT. I REALLY JUST BLACKED OUT BECAUSE I REALLY JUST COULD NOT REALLY COULD TAKE IT AT THE DAY WILSON HAS HAD TO LEAVE HER JOB TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR CHILDREN. THE HARDEST THING IS, YOU KNOW, SAYING THE KIDS SUFFER AND YOU KNOW THEM EVERY DAY TELL ME THEIR MISS THEIR DAD. SHE WANTS THE MAN CHARGED WITH THEIR FATHER’S MURDERED TO KNOW HE TOOK EVERYTHING FROM US. IT’S NOT EVEN SETTLE IN FOR ME RIGHT NOW, LIKE JUST ALL OVER A TROPHIES AND SHE COPES WITH IMMENSE LOSS. SHE’S PREPARING TO WELCOME NEW LIFE. HE WAS WAITING ON THIS LITTLE BOY THEIR FIRST SON WHO WILL BE NAMED AFTER HIS FATHER. YEAH EVERYTHING. TAKE THAT FROM THE FIRST CONVERSATION. IT WAS WE WOULD HAVE WITH THE BABY AND FIRST OUTFIT EVEN I KNOW HE’
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'He was a devoted dad:' Kansas City man killed in road-rage shooting

Marvin Yancey was a full-time dad to four young girls and was expecting his first son.

A Kansas City family is coping with a devastating loss. A father of four young girls was killed in an apparent case of road rage. Now his fiancée is bearing an unimaginable burden as she raises their daughters and the baby boy he'll never get to meet.Marvin Yancey was a full-time dad and homeschool teacher to his four daughters ages 2 to 7."He was a devoted dad. He was just really a family man, focused on his family," said his fiancée, Marina Wilson. On July 16, their lives would change forever, when Yancey was killed in an apparent road rage shooting on Blue Ridge Boulevard near East 82nd Street."I could just, felt it, knew something was wrong," Wilson said, "because he still hadn't returned home."She said he had gone to the bank that Saturday morning. After becoming worried when Yancey didn't respond to her calls and texts, her worst fears were confirmed when she got a call from police that night."I really just blacked out 'cause I really just could not, I really couldn't take it after that," she said.Wilson has had to leave her job to take care of their children."The hardest thing is, you know, seeing the kids suffer," she said. "Them every day telling me they miss their dad."She wants the man charged with their father's murder to know, "he took everything from us," she said. "It's not even settling for me right now, like, just all over a traffic incident."As she copes with immense loss, she's also preparing to welcome new life. Their first son will be named after his father."He had everything picked out from the first conversation we would have with the baby and first outfit even," Wilson said. "I know he's going to be right there. I'm going to feel him."Charles Miller, Jr. faces several charges including second-degree murder and armed criminal action. The family also lost one of their vehicles in the incident and needs one that will be able to fit their soon-to-be family of six. There's a GoFundMe set up to help. To donate, click here.

A Kansas City family is coping with a devastating loss. A father of four young girls was killed in an apparent case of road rage. Now his fiancée is bearing an unimaginable burden as she raises their daughters and the baby boy he'll never get to meet.

Marvin Yancey was a full-time dad and homeschool teacher to his four daughters ages 2 to 7.

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"He was a devoted dad. He was just really a family man, focused on his family," said his fiancée, Marina Wilson.

On July 16, their lives would change forever, when Yancey was killed in an apparent road rage shooting on Blue Ridge Boulevard near East 82nd Street.

"I could just, felt it, knew something was wrong," Wilson said, "because he still hadn't returned home."

She said he had gone to the bank that Saturday morning. After becoming worried when Yancey didn't respond to her calls and texts, her worst fears were confirmed when she got a call from police that night.

"I really just blacked out 'cause I really just could not, I really couldn't take it after that," she said.

Wilson has had to leave her job to take care of their children.

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

She wants the man charged with their father's murder to know, "he took everything from us," she said. "It's not even settling for me right now, like, just all over a traffic incident."

As she copes with immense loss, she's also preparing to welcome new life. Their first son will be named after his father.

"He had everything picked out from the first conversation we would have with the baby and first outfit even," Wilson said. "I know he's going to be right there. I'm going to feel him."

Charles Miller, Jr. faces several charges including second-degree murder and armed criminal action.

The family also lost one of their vehicles in the incident and needs one that will be able to fit their soon-to-be family of six. There's a GoFundMe set up to help. To donate, click here.