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USA Today NetworkPhilip DeVencentis, The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record Published 11:08 a.m. ET Nov. 3, 2017
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Darren Drake’s parents, James and Barbara Drake, allege about their son who was one of eight bodies who died in this week's alarm advance in New York City. Michael Karas/NorthJersey.com
Darren Drake's parents, James and Barbara Drake, in their son's allowance at their home in New Milford, N.J., on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017. Darren Drake was one of eight bodies who died in the alarm advance in New York City on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017.(Photo: Michael Karas, The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record)
NEW MILFORD, N.J. — Darren Drake anticipation he was chargeless from crisis as he biked bottomward a Hudson River aisle in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday.
It was his recess, his accustomed routine.
"He acquainted safe," said Barbara Drake, Darren's mother.
But on that arctic afternoon, he was annihilation but.
Drake, who would accept affronted 33 this month, was one of eight bodies dead back authorities say an Uzbeki immigrant from Paterson, N.J., sped bottomward the aisle in a busy truck, animadversion bottomward pedestrians and cyclists afore ramming a academy bus.
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The doubtable — 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov — again emerged from the barter pointing paintball and pellet guns, authorities said. He was attempt in the belly by badge and taken to Bellevue Hospital.
"I accept sickness. I accept an accident," Barbara Drake said Thursday. "But, I don't accept addition advancing and mowing bottomward people, like it's nothing."
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Saipov reportedly told authorities he "felt good" about the alarm artifice he allegedly agitated out.
James Drake, who initially wrestled with animosity of acrimony against his son's killer, bidding alone weariness Thursday.
"To be affronted is useless," said James Drake. "There's annihilation I can do about it. What am I activity to do, sue him?"
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Instead, Darren's parents said they begin abundance from a association that was afflicted with them.
Since the attack, the Drakes accept been afflicted with support. On Thursday, their dining allowance and kitchen were abounding with ability of condolence. Amid the baskets of semi-tropical abode plants, bouquets of flowers, platters of sandwiches and a heaping basin of macaroni salad, a handwoven absolute lay in a arcade bag — a allowance from an alien drifter who wrote, simply, "I achievement it warms your heart, aloof a little."
Darren Drake was one of eight bodies who died in the alarm advance in New York City on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017. (Photo: Michael Karas, The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record)
Some of the mourners who accept alleged and agape took the brace by surprise.
"We didn't alike apperceive how abounding lives he's touched," Barbara Drake said, abacus she and her bedmate accept heard this anniversary from abounding of her son's above classmates. "He was still in blow with bodies he went to grammar academy with. We never knew."
As they planned their alone child's funeral, Barbara Drake said it was abrasive for her to allocution about Darren.
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"I like to get it out," she said. "The acumen we're accomplishing this account is to let anybody apperceive what a admirable being he is."
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Darren, who was advancing a additional master's amount in technology administration from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., was a affairs administrator for Moody's Analytics at the World Trade Center back January 2014. A 2003 alum of New Milford High School, he was a above affiliate of the academy lath and onetime applicant for Borough Council.
“The acumen we're accomplishing this account is to let anybody apperceive what a admirable being he is.”
Darren was in actual acceptable alcohol in contempo weeks, his parents said. He absent 93 pounds — bottomward to 307 pounds — through cycling and watching what he ate. In fact, his parents said, their son afresh begin that best of his clothes were too big, and they bought him a $600 clothing from Men's Wearhouse.
It was the aftereffect of a affable bet amid the three of them, and the brace said Darren won because he had absent so abundant weight.
On Thursday, abounding of Darren's clothes had been arranged in debris accoutrements on the attic of his bedroom, apprehension commitment to a veterans' charity.
As the Drakes batten Thursday of their admired son, the buzz rang continuously — added mourners gluttonous to pay their condolences.
Then, a bounded badge administrator agape on the advanced aperture to action his support.
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Then, afterwards accepting abundance from all of those abrupt places, they begin it area it consistently had been: Their son's bedroom.
It was on the baby table, beyond from Darren's attack signs and diplomas, and a few anxiety abroad from his handsome accumulating of cufflinks.
It was a account of Darren, smiling.
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