Michigan Groom Kills His Best Man On Wedding Night
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
An unthinkable and tragic end to a Michigan couple’s wedding: the groom fatally ran over his best man after an alcohol fueled fight turned deadly. 24-year-old James Shirah pleaded no contest to 2nd degree homicide for the death of groomsman 29-year-old Terry Taylor. Shirah said in court that he will “forever be sorry” still claiming it was an accident, but will spend at least the next 30 years behind bars for his crime.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Tuesday, May 12th, and a man in Michigan was just sentenced to decades in prison |
| 0:14.1 | for killing his best friend and his best man on his wedding night. |
| 0:23.0 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:26.0 | To be clear, this guy who is dead was the best friend of and the best man of the groom, |
| 0:34.5 | the groom who is now going to prison for killing him on wedding night. |
| 0:38.7 | Robes. |
| 0:39.3 | This is some, sometimes we talk about headlines that are written to get you to click. |
| 0:43.0 | This one is what it is. |
| 0:44.5 | Yeah, I mean, you can't even believe it. |
| 0:46.2 | You click on it thinking, no way. |
| 0:47.9 | This can't have actually happened. |
| 0:50.2 | But it did. |
| 0:51.4 | And it's just beyond tragic. Even some of the photos from the courtroom, just all sides. The groomsmen, the best man's family, and certainly the groom himself and his family. And his bride is also implicated in all of this. It's horrific. It is not the way anyone would have pictured a wedding night celebration to have |
| 1:12.3 | ended. This is awful. This is a time, you know, I love weddings and new beginnings and the |
| 1:16.9 | idea of families coming together and blending families and blending friends. And just to think of |
| 1:23.3 | what we all, we've all been to a wedding. We've all been to the celebration after a wedding now imagine |
| 1:28.3 | at that celebration the groom kills his best man now this didn't happen we'll explain here |
| 1:36.5 | this wasn't some physical fight he actually hit him with a car we're going to get into the |
| 1:39.9 | incident but this just happened ropes yesterday in court but this was up in Michigan. We're talking |
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