When it rains, it pours. Leo Lloyd was in the hospital after a car accident, so Nina Walsh dropped everything at the company and rushed over.
Leo Lloyd's wife, Anna Zane, was waiting outside the emergency room with their thirteen-year-old daughter, Rhonda.
Both mother and daughter had red-rimmed eyes, having clearly been crying for a long time.
"Aunt Yvonne, what happened?" Nina Walsh asked, walking up to them.
Anna Zane's voice was hoarse from crying; she couldn't speak. Rhonda answered for her. "Nina, Dad went to my parent-teacher conference this morning. It wasn't even over when he got a call from the company. He was in a hurry to get back, and then..."
Rhonda choked up. "The moment he left the school... he was hit by a car at the intersection right by the gate. It was a hit-and-run. A security guard at the school was the one who found him and called for an ambulance..."
