“She wants her daddy,” Kirk Foote said of his 5-year-old granddaughter. “It won’t bring my son back, but I want to know who it was.”
DALLAS — It took Derrik Alan Foote’s family more than 36 hours to find him. Now, they need the public’s help to find who hit and killed him on I-20 last Saturday night.
“I guess any parent, but a father’s worst nightmare,” Foote’s father Kirk Foote told WFAA.
At about 10:30 p.m. on June 21, Foote was on his motorcycle on his way home. The Dallas County Sheriff’s Office says a silver sedan struck him while traveling eastbound on I-20 at Spur 408.
“Derrik was struck by a vehicle that left the scene,” his stepmother Lindsay Thorpe said. “But then I believe he was run over by two other vehicles. That’s what the detective told us.”
“Maybe it was an accident,” Kirk Foote said. “I don’t know. But, we really don’t know who it was. And we need to try and find out who is responsible for this.”
The Dallas County Sheriff’s Office confirms they are investigating. Police believe the first vehicle that hit Foote was a silver sedan. Investigators are asking for anyone who may have witnessed the crash, or has dash cam footage from the area that night, to come forward.
“Certainly somebody saw something,” Kirk Foote said. “It’s an awful busy highway.”
“And we’d like to, you know, put at least some closure for the family, trying to understand how and why it happened,” the victim’s stepsister Melissa Arana said.
And they would like to know for one more person too: Derrik Foote’s 5-year-old daughter.
“Jade is wondering if she can call her daddy on his cell phone,” Kirk Foote said. “Does his cell phone work in heaven?”
“I don’t think she understood when we had to tell her but now she’s asking and reality has hit and it’s very difficult for her,” Melissa Arana said.
“She wants her daddy,” Kirk Foote said. “It won’t bring my son back, but I want to know who it was.”
A memorial service for Derrik Alan Foote is planned for next Tuesday July 1 in Waxahachie, where he will be honored as a “devoted dad, a loyal friend, and a man who lived life fully — with heart, strength and compassion.”