{"id":492,"date":"2009-04-29T17:32:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T22:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/index.php\/?p=492"},"modified":"2009-04-30T16:01:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T21:01:30","slug":"spyk-quick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2009\/04\/29\/spyk-quick\/","title":{"rendered":"Spyk Quick – Killed by a habitual coward…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"spyk.JPG\"<\/a>The last 72 hours have been a particularly hard, emotional roller coaster on my very dear friend Desiree Wynder and her family.\u00a0 As reported in the local news<\/a> this week Desiree’s brother, Ian Quick, known to everyone locally as Spyk, was killed by a hit and run driver while riding his street legal scooter (not a moped) on I-40 near Gorman Street.\u00a0 I first met Spyk when he first moved to Raleigh which was about two years ago despite media reports that he was in the area “about a year”.<\/p>\n

When the story was initially reported in the news on Monday the driver of the Yellow Xterra that hit Spyk had not been identified.\u00a0 The police told Desiree and her mother, Heidi, that there was a 72 hour window before most of the leads could dry up and the trail could go cold.\u00a0 The detectives were up against the clock.\u00a0 Desiree worked diligently with law enforcement and the media to keep Spyk’s story in the headlines so people would be on the lookout for the Xterra.<\/p>\n

Spyk was a cook at The Raleigh Times Bar where he was adored by his co-workers and the patrons.\u00a0 The management at the Times agreed to pay for all of the funeral expenses and then organized a memorial, which was held last night, not only to honor Spyk but also to provide more media coverage to find the hit and run driver.\u00a0 It may have worked faster than anyone expected.<\/p>\n

As the memorial got underway I was talking with Desiree at the bar.\u00a0 She went to talk to her grandfather and returned just moments later and told me “they found him”.\u00a0 Just as she was telling me this her phone rang.\u00a0 It was the lead detective on the case letting her know the information she had was correct.\u00a0 I asked her twice “what’s his name”?\u00a0 “Gavin Hawk” she repeated as the officer told her.\u00a0 The timing was uncanny. The 48 hour mark, the window of time in which most cases are solved, was quickly approaching.<\/p>\n

Twenty eight year-old Gavin Clifford Hawk was previously convicted on January 28, 2008 of a Class H Felony for “speeding to elude arrest” according to the NC Dept. of Corrections Offenders web site.\u00a0 Gavin obviously has a history of driving irresponsibly and then racing away from the scene.\u00a0 So it’s time for the book to be thrown.\u00a0 The cowardly son of a bitch also tried to slit his wrists before his arrest.\u00a0 I wish he’d succeeded and save the courts time and money.<\/p>\n

Watching Heidi’s tears turn from anger and sorrow to joy, if only for a moment, was a life event I will never forget.\u00a0 We drank to Spyk and we drank to Gavin Hawks arrest.\u00a0 Spyk can rest knowing that his killer has been apprehended.\u00a0 My faith in our local judicial system is weak but I hope that for once, in this instance, Gavin Hawk grows old in prison.\u00a0 His life should be over for the selfish crime he committed against a man who is one thousand times the person he is.\u00a0 You shouldn’t have run Gavin.\u00a0 You will pay a heavy price for your continuous, cowardly acts.\u00a0 Although I considered including Gavin’s picture in this post, I will not do him the honor.\u00a0 The goal moving forward is to remember Spyk and forget the coward who killed him as he rots in the NC prison system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last 72 hours have been a particularly hard, emotional roller coaster on my very dear friend Desiree Wynder and her family.\u00a0 As reported in the local news this week Desiree’s brother, Ian Quick, known to everyone locally as Spyk, was killed by a hit and run driver while riding his street legal scooter (not … Continue reading Spyk Quick – Killed by a habitual coward…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}