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Haunting memory motivates Bills’ Thigpen

To this day, one person has not forgiven Marcus Thigpen. She probably never will.

Thigpen doesn’t blame LaTonya Parker, really. When a mother loses her daughter there’s a pain, a need to hold someone accountable. And Thigpen was the driver that fateful night in Detroit. Sitting inside his Buffalo Bills locker, he takes a deep breath. Yeah, it bothers him.

Fourteen years later, he still doesn’t have closure.

“But at the end of the day,” Thigpen says, “there’s really nothing that I can do.”

That’s because he is responsible for the daughter’s death. When Thigpen was 14 years old, he was at the wheel of a van that careened into the woods and smashed into a tree.