Coast Guard veteran Daniel Dill killed after car crash

Daniel C. Dill, 29, was riding along Interstate 264 in Virginia around 2am last Saturday

A Coast Guard veteran who was traveling to pick up his girlfriend from a party was killed after a drunk driver riding on the wrong side of the highway collided with his vehicle. 

Daniel C. Dill, 29, was riding along Interstate 264 in Virginia around 2am Saturday night when the incident occurred, NJ.com reported. 

Natalie Dill, Daniel’s wife, was celebrating her 27th birthday that evening with friends following a meal with her husband and members of her family. 

A teetotaler, Daniel encouraged his wife to have a good time and offered to retrieve her and her friends later in the evening. She was not in the car at the time.

Melissa Hancock, a regular guest on Little Women: Atlanta, was driving her 2011 Cadillac when she allegedly hit Dill’s car head-on in the eastbound lane, just west of the Birdneck Road exit, according to police.  

Virginia state police say the model was arrested and charged with DUI/maiming and driving the wrong way. 

Mugshot: Melissa Hancock, a regular guest on Little Women: Atlanta, was allegedly driving on the wrong side the highway when she killed Dill 

Mugshot: Melissa Hancock, a regular guest on Little Women: Atlanta, was allegedly driving on the wrong side the highway when she killed Dill 

Dill offered to be the designated driver for his wife, Natalie (pictured) who was celebrating her 27th birthday 

Dill offered to be the designated driver for his wife, Natalie (pictured) who was celebrating her 27th birthday 

Dill was rushed to Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital where he was later pronounced dead, according to Wavy.com.

Hancock is being held without bail in a Virginia Beach jail.

Following the incident, Dill’s father, Christopher Dill Sr., remembered his son as a good man who enjoyed bringing happiness to others. 

‘He was clean cut, didn’t smoke or drink. He wasn’t ever in trouble. He was just laid-back, always happy and always looking to make everybody else happy,’ Christopher Dill said.  

Dill Kingsway Regional High School in 2006 and joined the Coast Guard in October of that year., according to NJ.com. 

Dill’s father said that he met his wife just a few years later, and decided to settle in Portsmouth, Virginia where they purchased a home. 

‘That was going to be their hometown,’ his father said.  

Hancock isn’t a main cast member of the Lifetime series which revolves around the lives of several short-stature women in Atlanta and is itself a spinoff of Little Women: LA.

Little women: Hancock is a regular guest of the Lifetime series which revolves around the lives of several short-stature women in Atlanta

Little women: Hancock is a regular guest of the Lifetime series which revolves around the lives of several short-stature women in Atlanta

Charges filed: TMZ said Hancock is being held without bail in a Virginia Beach jail

Charges filed: TMZ said Hancock is being held without bail in a Virginia Beach jail

Hancock is also a fashion model, having strolled the catwalk at New York Fashion Week in 2015.

That year marked the first time the show featured short stature models. 

‘Curvy women, six-foot-tall women, four-feet-tall women, we should all have the same opportunity to show what we got,’ Hancock told ET in her backstage interview at the show.

Dill is set to be buried with full military honors this Saturday at 11am at the St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Catwalker: Hancock is also a fashion model, having strolled the catwalk at New York Fashion Week in 2015

Catwalker: Hancock is also a fashion model, having strolled the catwalk at New York Fashion Week in 2015

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