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.