Fiancé mourns loss of woman killed in bus stop crash
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"This started our life together in Korea, that's where I met her," Rudolph Coolie said as he thumbs the only picture he has of his fiancé Hyoncha. It's a picture he now treasures. Video by ktnv.com
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Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) -- "This started our life together in Korea, that's where I met her," Rudolph Coolie said as he thumbs the only picture he has of his fiancé Hyoncha. It's a picture he now treasures.
"I just miss her," Coolie said.
Coolie said his fiancé is one of the four victims who was hit and killed while she waited for the bus at Spring Mountain and Decatur. Her colleagues, who layed candles at the bus stop, said she was on her way to work at Treasure Island, but never showed.
"She was scheduled to work," colleague Alberta Lauro said. "She was always there on time and happy."
A Korean immigrant, Coolie said his fiancé couldn't read or write in English, but she took the bus to work everyday.
"She knew the bus schedule really well by the colors on the map - she has memorized everything," Coolie said.
The couple, who was once married, remained friends and was planning to get remarried in January. They have a 21-year old son together.
"We gave each other these rings and I put mine on last night," Coolie said. "I'm never going to take it off."
The couple didn't get to say "I do," but Coolie said he will go back to the bus stop to say "goodbye."
"Every year on that day I will go back to that corner and be there for her," Coolie said.
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