Friends, family and law enforcement are pleading for people to remember Rasheed Wiggins, hit and killed earlier this month. They hope keeping his memory alive will lead to new information, vital to solving his death.

  • Rasheed Wiggins was killed in a hit-and-run crash April 16
  • Troopers have found the first car that hit him, but no arrests yet
  • The family has paid to increase the reward for information

“I’m at work every day and I used to see Rasheed walking down the hallway,” said Terris Ransom. “Every time we saw each other we’d stop.”

When Ransom first met Rasheed Wiggins at work, doing social media and marketing at Darden, he was thrilled, to say the least.

“The first thing I thought was, ‘Yes! Another guy,’ because there were a lot of ladies on the team at that point,” said Ransom.

Over the years their friendship grew. Ransom said he learned many things about his friend: Rasheed was a black belt, a fencer and a boxer; he was humble, upbeat and encouraged those around him.

“He’s an impressive guy. Like, when I learned about the fact he had an undergraduate degree from Duke, gone to Duke to get his MBA,” he said. “He was madly in love with Kim.”

Kimberly Wiggins is his wife of nearly five years. The couple dated for seven years, then married in the Duke Chapel.

“He really is my soul mate,” Kim said, via Skype Thursday. She has left the area for Virginia to be with her parents, with no plans to return.

“We were just getting to the really good part of our lives and now I have to figure out a different way to live it,” she said. “His story can’t fade into the background. The people who did this can’t be allowed to go free.”

On April 16, Rasheed took a quick trip to Walgreens along Universal Boulevard and never came home.

A car, believed to be a white Prius, hit him, throwing him into the road, and then took off. Another car hit him and drove away. Only a taxi stopped.

This past Friday, investigators used Facebook tips to locate the white Prius, questioning the female owner. The family chipped in to raise the Crimeline reward money to $7,500. Yet, law enforcement has been unable to make any arrests in the case. 

“People don’t realize, even the smallest amount of information you may have, thinking it’s insignificant, can help us break a case open,” said Sgt. Kim Montes with the Florida Highway Patrol.

Investigators are scrubbing the white car for evidence and looking through surveillance video. They hope to pinpoint who was driving the first car, locate the second car and determine its driver -- if they can garner helpful tips from the public.

“We need someone who knows who that person is, knows where that car is,” Montes said. “In a lot of cases, the owner doesn’t come forward for whatever reason. Whether they’re guilty, whether they’re scared, whether they don’t know and let us know who was driving. It’s law enforcement’s job to prove who was driving.”

Rasheed’s’ friends and family are hoping for justice for the 39-year-old man who they say is gone much too soon.

“This story isn’t solved yet. We don’t know exactly what happened, and who is responsible. And I feel like the family needs that closure,” said Ransom.

If you have any information, call Crimeline at 1-800-423-TIPS (8477).