A selfless West Virginia man was found dead after he picked up a stranger while vacationing in South Carolina, his widow has revealed.
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, The Sun News reported.
Wilson, who was visiting from Parkersburg, West Virginia, agreed to give the unknown man a lift after dropping his family off, according to the outlet.
“I didn’t think anything of it because he does it all the time,” his wife, Staci, told the newspaper.
But Wilson was later found in his car with gunshot wounds, the news site reported. He was brought to a hospital, where he was taken off life support on July 10.
Police have charged Quentin Ahmad Jean, 35, in the shooting, but questions still remain about Wilson’s final hours.
Josh Wilson’s widow told The Sun News that she 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 grieving widow described her late husband as altruistic and good-hearted.