Timothy Hoffman, the father of murder victim Cynthia “CeeCee” Hoffman, died last Sunday in a tragic motorcycle crash, during an annual ride intended to commemorate his daughter. It was five years since her death.

“Investigation revealed Timothy Hoffman Sr., age 58 of Anchorage, was riding with a passenger and lost control of his motorcycle as he was northbound passing S. Rainbow Street, leaving the left shoulder of the road and rolling into the center median,” Alaska state troopers said in a statement. “Timothy wasn’t wearing a helmet; his passenger was wearing a full-face helmet.”

That passenger was his wife, Barbara “Jeanie” Hoffman, family said in a report from The Anchorage Daily News. Her brother-in-law, Robert Hoffman, reportedly said she had begun to find closure in her daughter’s death, and that was one of the reasons why she joined her husband on his bike that Sunday.

Troopers said that both the driver and passenger were unresponsive at the scene and were moved to a hospital, having suffered life-threatening injuries. Hoffman was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Jeanie Hoffman sustained skull fractures, a broken back, and other broken bones, even with the helmet, Robert Hoffman’s fiancee Tanya Chaison reportedly said.

“I am deeply saddened by the sudden passing of Tim Hoffman on the fifth anniversary of Cynthia Hoffmann’s murder,” Patrick McKay, a lead prosecutor on some of the cases connected to the murder, reportedly said. “It seems almost too unbelievable to be true.”

As previously reported, an array of people were charged with killing Hoffman, who was developmentally disabled, but the 19-year-old victim’s “best friend” Denali Dakota Skye Brehmer, faced adult court. Co-defendant Darin Schilmiller was not at the scene of the June 2, 2019 murder near Thunderbird Falls on the banks of the Eklutna River, but he was charged as the mastermind. Posing online as a man named “Tyler,” he had offered Brehmer $9 million to kidnap and kill one of her friends. In actuality, however, “Tyler” was a broke, unemployed Indiana resident living in his grandparents’ basement.

Caleb Leyland and Kayden McIntosh have pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree in connection to the incident.