A North Carolina man is being remembered as "a beloved" husband and father with an "infectious smile" after he was tragically shot and killed just hours after his wedding.
According to local station WXII, 37-year-old Tyrek Burton was fatally shot on Saturday outside the Barber Park Event Center in Greensboro, N.C.
Authorities have yet to identify a suspect or determine a motive for Burton’s killing and are seeking the public's assistance in locating his killer.
Burton was discovered in the parking lot of the events center. He was reportedly shot approximately 15 times, according to local outlets WRAL and WECT. Local WFMY reports that Burton died later Saturday night from his injuries.
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“Why on the wedding day? Why him? Just why, why, why?” Burton’s sister-in-law Nysheria Holloway mourned in an interview with WRAL. “He stepped up to be a father figure in my two oldest nieces’ lives …. He moved them away from Roxboro, secured a stable job and was building a future with my sister.” Holloway said Burton and her sister, Kiara Holloway, had been a couple for 16 years.
Burton’s cousin Keisha Satterfield launched a GoFundMe fundraiser to help Burton’s family with funeral costs and to provide support for his children.
Satterfield wrote her cousin was killed after marrying “the love of his life, on one of the happiest days of his life.”
“He was a beloved husband, father of four beautiful girls, brother and friend,” Satterfield wrote, adding that Burton was “known for his generosity, and infectious smile.”
