MINNEAPOLIS - A crash on Friday night near Penn Avenue in Minneapolis took the life of a father just days before Father's Day.
Terrence Odom, 40, was one of two people killed.
"He was a good guy. He was a great father and everything," said Chanta Bradley, who says she and Odom moved to Minneapolis together about five years ago from Chicago.
Father's Day weekend was off to a good start, until Friday evening when Odom was headed to the store.
"He was just happy. He took the kids and bought fireworks so they could have fireworks this weekend. All of that just got cut short. Cut short. It hurts," Bradley said.
On his way to the store, as he was getting out of his car near Lowry and Penn, Odom was hit by a van.
The driver was a woman who was running from an earlier crash, according to police. She entered the alley, hit a telephone pole and flipped onto Odom's car.
Now Chanta is left to raise their 7-year-old son alone.
She says Terrence raised her other two children as if they were his own.
"It hurts bad. And for it to happen on Father's Day weekend, he had the weekend planned out. He picked me up from work and everything," Bradley said.
The other driver survived the crash. Her passenger died.
Chanta says the man she loved was a changed person who was hoping to soon become a truck driver, who loved his family and was taken away by someone's recklessness.
"It's terrible. It's terrible," Bradley said.