Deadly Drive Thru Encounter
While reading through my faithful Westword that I previously mentioned I learned about a horrific incident that happened not too far from where I live and shockingly that I never heard of before. It was a recent story about horrific incident that took place at a Burger King Drive thru.
This whole incident took place in Aurora, and for all of you out there who know nothing about Colorado I just thought I would share this with you. I had the amazing pleasure of seeing DL Hughley last year and as he said “Aurora is the Compton of Colorado”. Now Aurora is not to the same extremes as Compton just the place where you expect hate crimes, and very pointless crimes to take place. With this in mind let me explain briefly what happened at an Aurora Burger King May 29, 2009.
There is a car with 3 females in it, they decided to stop at Burger King on the way home from a bar around 2:30 am. It was two friends and one of the girl’s mother, they thought that this was a simple routine stop at Burger King. Little did they know that it would end in the mother being run over and killed! Of course the cops cannot release all the details of the crime and there are two stories to what occurred that night.
Here is a very brief summary of what happened according to the victim’s daughter. She was with her friend and mother and they chose to stop at a Burger King to get some food after leaving a bar. They were in the dive thru when a male walked up to the window to ask if they had a cigarette. Everyone in the car responded with a “no”, but the man knew they were lying because he saw some in one of the purses inside of their car. When he saw the cigarettes he stuck his arm into the car to try to reach them. The girls rustle around with the man and get his arm out of the vehicle and the window up. The man then got back into the Cadillac behind them and the two girls with him then proceeded to yell racial slurs saying things like, “We’re Mexicans! We’ll kill you white bitches!” Because of the extremes that the Cadillac’s passengers when to the girls asked Burger King employee’s to call the police, to which they refused to and just threw their food in the car to get them on their way. Around the time when the girls got their food they hear noises like their tail lights were being broken, or that glass bottles were being thrown at the car. They were worried that their car was damaged so they stop in the parking lot to look it over.
After they got out of the car the Cadillac screeched to a stop near the back of their car. The two girls from that car got out and were very agitated and yelling at the girls. Why the passengers were so angry is still quite the mystery. I also do not fully understand how it got to the point where anyone was run over and killed. The only other details that were described by Shala Parker to Westword, was that the male got out of the Cadillac again and a male friend of Parkers was driving by and saw this altercation. Parker’s male friend and the male from the Cadillac got into a physical fight. When it seemed as though Parker’s male friend was winning the fight one of the females from the Cadillac attempted to fight Shala Parker. The male then got back into the Cadillac, and Shala was able to break free from the fight. When Shala’s mother got out of her car and was trying to get everyone to go their separate ways. This is when everyone got back into the Cadaillac, one girl yelled “Let’s just fucking hit them.” At that point the Cadillac then slammed into Shala’s mother and their car. Shala Parkers mother Lilian Verdonkschot died later due to injuries from the accident.
Nadine Montoya was later arrested and charged for the murder of Lilian Verdonkschot. She was not changed with a hate crime, but Shala Parker believes that she should be charged with a hate crime because there were so many racial slurs shouted throughout the entire altercation. Montoya’s sister claims that her sister would never say anything derogatory about another race, but Montoya says that she did say “We’re Mexicans! We’ll kill you white bitches!”
I hate to be harsh to anyone because this is a horrific situation, but I just cannot imagine allowing myself or my family to stay in such a situation. I know what Aurora is like, and I do not live there so maybe I am biased. If people were threatening me and throwing things at my vehicle then I never would stay in the parking lot. I really find this terrifying, can you imagine getting to a point in this world where we are not even safe in our own vehicles while going through a drive thru?
