Note: On Monday morning, the family changed the funeral home for Dramone Houston. Cannon Funeral Home will make the arrangements.

ROTTERDAM — When Yvette Houston arrived home Saturday at 8 a.m. from her overnight job as a home health aide, she expected her husband Dramone Houston to be there with their children.

But outside her home, Rotterdam Police were waiting. They told her that her 46-year-old husband was a victim of a hit-and-run just blocks away from their Jerry Avenue home.

Rotterdam police Sunday arrested Megan M. Alexandre of 2528 Curry Road and charged her with leaving the scene of a fatal accident, a felony. She was arraigned Sunday night about 6:30 p.m. before Judge James Bradshaw and remanded to the custody of the Schenectady County Sheriff's Office in lieu of $10,000 cash bail or $20,000 bond.

The final outcome might have been different if Alexandre called police, Rotterdam police said Sunday night.

But on that Saturday morning, when Houston was told her husband had died, she had trouble with a simple act of getting her key in the door. A female detective helped her go in — and assisted when she told the children.

"It was so hard to tell them," she said. "The kids, they are all breaking down. It was such a shock. He was such an amazing man, such a good father."

He was hit on Friday night at about 11:15 p.m. on Hamburg Street as he walked home from the bus stop, coming from his job at Walmart in Glenville. But he wasn't found, detectives told Yvette Houston, until 4 a.m.

"What really hurts and bothers me is that he was lying there for hours in the sleet and freezing rain," Yvette Houston said Sunday. "It just breaks my heart. I can't get it out of my head."

Yvette Houston said that Dramone was not suppose to work that late on Friday, but he offered to close the store and take the last bus home. He knew he would only have to put up with the bus for a few more days.

"He was buying a car next week," Yvette said. "He had the down payment, his loan was approved. He was so excited."

He was also days away from being eligible for life insurance at Walmart. Now, his wife said, they are scrambling to pay for a funeral.

"It's going to cost us $4,500 to $5,000 for a funeral," she said. "We are putting together a GoFundMe page because we don't have the money."

Dramone lived in Albany for a time where he drove a school bus for Durham School Services. He also worked at Lowe's Home Improvement.

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Dramone Houston was born on Dec. 9, 1971 in Newark, N.J. On Sunday, his two brothers and a nephew from New Jersey filled up the small Rotterdam home, trying to find ways to comfort Yvette and the three girls, ages 6, 8, 11, and his two step-sons, ages 12 and 16. Dramone Houston was also father of two other children, ages 25 and 27, who live in North Carolina.

"It's terrible," said his nephew Hyron Smith. "It's beyond terrible. It's a terrible way to go out. Someone hit him and left him. Dramone was a good person, a loving, funny dude who lived for his kids. It's just horrible."

Rotterdam police held a press conference following the arraignment and said surveillance video indicted Alexandre didn't stop when she hit Houston. Both were heading south on Hamburg Street. Houston's body was found off the road. Her passenger side vehicle had damage consistent with hitting someone.

"Barring any unforeseen circumstances if she (Alexandre) called it in, we certainly would have had a different outcome," said Lt. William Male of the Rotterdam Police Department.

Alexandre gave a statement to police, Male said. Additional charges are pending.

Alexandre is due back in court Thursday. Meanwhile, Yvette Houston is planning her husband's funeral with Cannon Funeral Home. As of Monday morning, she did not know what day a service will take place.

"He wanted to be cremated," his wife said. "That's what we will do."