Loved ones of a wrong-way crash victim have created a scholarship in her memory.
Shelby “Lexus” Walker was killed instantly in a crash in the Downtown Tunnel on Dec. 30, 2023.
A wrong-way driver hit her car. Virginia State Police say Dominique Goodwin was driving east in the westbound lanes of the Downtown Tunnel when she crashed head-on into Walker, killing her instantly.
Tarena Williams, a loved one of Walker, says she lost a friend, and the LGBT community lost a bright light.
Since her death, a scholarship has been created in her name through the Southeastern Transgender Resource Center in Norfolk: The Shelby “Lexus” Walker Scholarship.
Williams says her friend was an advocate for education and wanted to use it to help others.
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“She had gotten her PCA certificate and I know she wanted to go further into doing that,” said Williams. “She was a caregiver and she took care of her grandmother and her mom and she took care of people in the community,”