Not So Happily Ever After: Couple Allegedly Kill Groomsman

Weddings and receptions can get ugly thanks to alcohol but a groom and bride allegedly killing a groomsman at the wedding is another level.

Happily Ever After

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What is "Happily Ever After?" The phrase "Happily Ever After" is an idiom that means to live happily for the rest of one's life, especially in a romantic relationship.

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Many times someone will decorate the back of the car the bride and groom drive off in with the phrase "Happily Ever After" on a sign or written on the window as they leave the wedding for the reception.

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Most everyone has heard of a wedding or a reception where something happens that is a spoiler for the event. From a family or friend not being happy with someone and a confrontation breaks out or someone drinking too much booze and a fight breaks out or worse. Up until today, I had never heard of a groom and bride allegedly murdering a groomsman on the night of their wedding.

Michigan Couple Allegedly Kill Groomsman on Night of Their Wedding

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At most weddings, the groom is in a tuxedo the bride is in her beautiful wedding gown and a photographer follows them around all day capturing all the happy moments on film to look at for a lifetime.

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A Michigan couple went from a tuxedo and wedding dress to jailhouse jumpsuits the night of their wedding.

According to WZZM, a Flint Michigan couple has been arrested for allegedly running over a groomsman with an SUV on their wedding night. Police arrested 22-year-old James Shirah and 21-year-old Savahna Collier for the alleged death of 29-year-old Terry Lewis Taylor Jr.

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There was an alleged argument that took place after the wedding that allegedly led the groom, Shirah, to drive an SUV at a high rate of speed and intentionally hit the groomsman who died at the hospital.