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Willis Hunt wasn’t even driving the night he died.

The victim of Vancouver’s 14th homicide of the year who died after a deadly road rage incident early Friday morning doesn’t even drive, said his mother Sunni Hunt.

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Instead, Hunt was a passenger as a female friend sat behind the wheel of a grey Toyota Matrix. They were driving past the PNE in Vancouver when the driver accidentally cut off a white sedan.

She didn’t mean to, said Hunt, recounting what the friend had told her. But “that car just wouldn’t let up. The driver was enraged, it seemed.”

The driver turned on McGill Street, with the white sedan hot on their heels. At some point, “she stopped the car and got out to say ‘What’s the problem? I’m sorry.’ ”

Willis, 33, also got out of the car and put himself between the driver and the vehicle.

“The next thing she knew, he was against her … he flew up against her,” said Hunt. “She didn’t know he was shot. She never heard (the gunshot).”