Got a ride from the wrong guys, maybe to buy drugs. Got robbed and tossed out of a car.

8/13/2013 6:52:34 PM

WRAL is saying it was a hit and run.

8/13/2013 6:56:13 PM

Why did the drunk guy cross the road?

8/13/2013 6:58:00 PM

Where the police are set up I would say he was trying to walk home

8/13/2013 6:59:08 PM

So he was drunk and the person that hit him(if that's the case) was prob drunk too.


What if it were the girlfriend????

8/13/2013 7:01:08 PM

8/13/2013 7:16:19 PM

so the body had been there since Saturday?

8/13/2013 7:16:33 PM

How the fuck hard does a car have to hit you at moores square for you to land on 440?

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8/13/2013 7:17:09 PM

8/13/2013 7:28:54 PM

you can walk a long way blacked out drunk I know a guy who has done it before and prevailed

8/13/2013 7:31:07 PM

the drunk guy prevailed

8/13/2013 7:43:09 PM

not this time

8/13/2013 7:58:02 PM

Depends on if they find the driver or not

8/13/2013 8:02:12 PM

the drunk driver prevailed?

8/13/2013 8:08:16 PM

Condolences to the guys family. I bet the girl feels like absolute shit.

8/13/2013 8:20:42 PM

So sad.

8/13/2013 8:22:06 PM

the mean streets of raleigh claim another

8/13/2013 8:25:04 PM

Quote :

" I bet the girl feels like absolute shit"

what if he's the one who started the fight with her?
what if she tried hard to get him to come home, but he refused, and ended up walking away?

what's a 4'6" 90lb chick going to do? throw him over her shoulder and put him in a cab?

8/13/2013 8:48:30 PM

Was he dating a 10 year old?

8/13/2013 8:55:08 PM

How far from the Oxford is the area in which the body was found?

8/13/2013 8:57:33 PM

like 2 miles as the pedestrian walks...hammond rd exit is a no mans land at night, and during the day.

8/13/2013 9:03:28 PM

^^ you must not have visited her facebook photos yet. she's the most petite girl I've ever seen

8/13/2013 9:03:45 PM

maybe he is a belligerent angry drunk

we do not know

8/13/2013 9:05:03 PM

we ALL know the dude who likes to wander off when he gets drunk

8/13/2013 9:06:07 PM

maybe he raped his girlfriend and told her to abort the baby and that's why he got drunk and wandered off.

but who's to say?

8/13/2013 9:06:38 PM

at least he was not a drunk driver

8/13/2013 9:10:02 PM

at least his dad didn't have to camp in Moore Square very long

[Edited on August 13, 2013 at 9:23 PM. Reason : they were probably arguing about her eating disorder]

8/13/2013 9:17:15 PM

Jon Laney was driving

8/13/2013 9:24:00 PM

heh

8/13/2013 9:34:52 PM

One would think that if he made it those first few blocks after mlk on (Wilmington st) he'd be home free

It would have taken him over 5 hours.

[Edited on August 13, 2013 at 9:57 PM. Reason : K]

8/13/2013 9:50:19 PM

home = Apex

8/13/2013 9:53:34 PM

Quote :

"RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Police say the body of a missing man was found along Interstate 40 westbound Tuesday afternoon. Weston Vandemerwe, 23, had been reported missing Sunday afternoon. His death is now being investigated as a hit-and-run collision. Related Content STORY: Search under way for missing Apex man Police say work crews found his body just over a guard rail at the on-ramp to I-40 from Hammond Road Tuesday afternoon. Traffic in the area was backed up for miles as officers put up crime scene tape along the shoulder of the interstate and detectives pored over the area. Vandemerwe's family made a public plea Monday after the East Carolina University graduate went missing over the weekend. He was last seen around 1:30 a.m. Saturday in The Oxford Bar in Raleigh after arguing with his girlfriend, who hailed a cab. Family members believe Vandemerwe left The Oxford and was walking home to Apex when he disappeared. Students from Shaw University said they saw Vandemerwe near the Raleigh Convention Center around 2 a.m. Saturday. They said he appeared drunk, and was laying in the bushes. From there, he somehow made his way toward the interstate where police say he was hit by a car. Anyone with information that might assist the investigation of the case should call Raleigh CrimeStoppers at (919) 834-HELP or visit http://www.raleighcrimestoppers.org for text and e-mail reporting options."

8/13/2013 10:41:51 PM

but then who was car?

8/13/2013 10:44:30 PM

wonder if his injuries were survivable if he had gotten prompt medical attention

that hit and run driver could have possibly saved him by calling it in. :/

8/13/2013 10:54:33 PM

drunk on drunk crime

8/13/2013 10:57:12 PM

the driver could have saved his family and friends days of hell searching for him

pretty fked up.

8/13/2013 10:59:28 PM

Quote :

"RALEIGH, N.C. — A body found along westbound Interstate 40/440 in Raleigh Tuesday afternoon has been identified as a missing Apex man, police said. The death of Weston Michael Vandemerwe, 23, is being investigated as a hit-and-run crash. A work crew found the body near a guardrail along the highway, between Hammond Road and South Saunders Street, around 4 p.m. At least 15 police officers from both Raleigh and Apex, as well as the City-County Bureau of Identification, responded to the scene before confirming it was Vandemerwe. The ramp from Hammond Road and the right two lanes of the highway were closed for several hours, causing traffic backups in the area. Vandemerwe left The Oxford bar on Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, friends said. He and his girlfriend, Kaitlyn Holmes, argued outside the bar, and she got in a cab. Holmes said she assumed Vandemerwe would also take a cab home. He had left his car at a friend's house in Cary. Vandemerwe's mother, Becky Daly, said two Shaw University students told her that they saw him lying on the ground outside the convention center early Saturday, but that he declined any help. He was reported missing Sunday afternoon. Anyone with information about the hit-and-run crash is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 919-834-4357. Crime Stoppers pays cash rewards for tips that help solve cases, and callers can remain anonymous."

8/13/2013 11:05:38 PM

Um. I'll admit I'm not the smartest person around but does anyone know why he didn't just take a cab? Like that whole area is all cabs at that time.

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8/13/2013 11:22:43 PM

b/c he was drunk and can't think straight? maybe didn't have money? maybe self pity to make his gf feel sorry for him? maybe needed time to think things through?

8/13/2013 11:26:15 PM

^^ it's not a cheap ride from Raleigh to Apex...I mean, just going from downtown Raleigh to State campus runs about $20 last time I checked (which was like a decade ago)

granted, trying to walk it is pretty crazy, but he was drunk. when you're drunk it's easy to make over-ambitious plans.

8/13/2013 11:32:02 PM

The driver probably didn't call it in because they were drunk, had a suspended license or any number of similar reasons hit and run drivers do what they do. Hopefully it was caught on a traffic cam or something.

I once walked from downtown Raleigh all the way to my apartment in Cary after getting lost from my friends and wandering around drunk until I sobered up enough to figure out where I was. My cell phone was dead and I didnt have enough on me to buy a cab, couldnt find one where I was anyway. I almost asked a cop to give me a ride home but was afraid they'd charge me with being drunk in public or something. I tried to pass out in DH Hill but the doors were locked.

[Edited on August 14, 2013 at 12:03 AM. Reason : .]

8/14/2013 12:01:20 AM

Last Thursday I meet a guy who had walked from Westchester, PA to Raleigh. We played guitar for a few hours and my buddy gave him a place to crash for the night.

8/14/2013 12:12:32 AM

Yeah I've had some pretty stupid and crazy walks from Downtown Raleigh back towards campus when I used to live on Maiden Ln, and a couple even longer to where I live now. I've only been blackout and tried to make that walk once, but that one time was enough for me to not drink for a while. I totally understand his thought process, but walking on a highway is something I'd like to think I wouldn't do no matter how much I'd had to drink. Wish he'd just stayed in that bush til he'd sobered up. Damn.

8/14/2013 12:12:49 AM

^stupid and crazy because of the distance or because of how drunk you were? Cuz you know.... It's really not that far.

Ditto on the staying in the bush number.

8/14/2013 12:14:56 AM

Since I've moved away from campus because of the distance - hated myself about halfway home each time. Only once because of how much I'd had to drink - that one turned into a roughhhh night.

8/14/2013 12:32:22 AM

Quote :

"I mean, just going from downtown Raleigh to State campus runs about $20 last time I checked (which was like a decade ago)"

I refuse to believe that you have ever paid $20 for a cab ride from campus to downtown. and on the off chance you have, you got hustled on an absurd level.

and I've walked home from downtown (a little over 4 miles) plenty of times before. always a good idea at the time.

[Edited on August 14, 2013 at 12:58 AM. Reason : and yeah, the halfway point is the worst]

8/14/2013 12:57:39 AM

^I think it was over $10 to go from Napper Tandy's to Moore Square last time I took one.

8/14/2013 1:02:29 AM

shocking

8/14/2013 1:12:15 AM

^Taxi's aren't cheap anymore.

8/14/2013 1:46:51 AM

It's entirely possible that the driver could be found not guilty of manslaughter charges (but guilty of a hit and run of course). I remember a case many years ago where some drunk guy wandered onto hillsborough st and was hit and killed by a car. The driver was found not guilty because the drunk just just wandered out there and he didn't have time to react. Could be what happened here.

8/14/2013 2:01:21 AM