A family already mourning the death of a 35-year-old woman following a Calgary gas station hit-and-run two years ago, has received more tragic news – her husband has been killed in a car crash on his way to visit her gravesite.

Ahmad Nourani Shalloo was driving from British Columbia to Calgary on Thursday, the second anniversary of his late wife’s death, when he was killed in a car accident on a B.C. highway.

Maryam Rashidi Ashtiani died on June 9, 2015 after she was fatally injured in hit-and-run at a Calgary gas station. She had tried to stop a $113 gas theft when she was struck by a stolen pickup truck.

Joshua Mitchell, 22, was convicted of manslaughter in her death in May. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for the end of August.

Jina Masnadi, a family friend, told CTV Calgary that she was still in shock after hearing about Shalloo’s death.

“Usually this happens in movies,” Masnadi said. “A story like this happens in a book not in the reality.”

Shalloo and Ashtiani moved from Iran to Canada in 2014. Ashtiani started working at the gas station after she was laid off from her job as a chemical engineer at a Calgary firm in March, 2015. The couple’s son, Koorosh, was only six years old when his mother died.

After Ashtiani’s death, Koorosh and his dad moved to Vancouver, where Shalloo remarried.

Koorosh and his stepmother were also in the car during Thursday’s fatal crash. The young boy suffered minor injuries while Shalloo’s wife broke her shoulder and was badly injured on her face. She’s recovering at the Kamloops Hospital in B.C.

A relative, Shahab Khoee, is now taking care of Koorosh, temporarily.

“He’s doing okay,” Khoee told CTV Calgary over the phone. “He’s a strong boy. He knows what happened. He knows his dad passed away, the only person he had has passed. He’s a strong person.”

Masnadi said she’s been in contact with Ashtiani’s family overseas and said they’re trying to figure out who will care for Koroosh. She said the young boy’s relatives will go through a legal process to determine who will raise him.

Shalloo’s family have travelled to B.C. to make arrangements for his funeral.

With a report from CTV Calgary’s Inu Sidhu