TULSA, Okla. — It’s been three weeks since Tulsan Mark Calcut Jr. was killed while riding his motorcycle on Highway 169 near the westbound exit ramp to I-44.
Mark leaves behind a fiancé, a son and hundreds of friends and family. Those hundreds who loved him Saturday showed their support for his family through a fundraiser.
Mark “Revolver” Calcut Jr. was loved by many and Saturday, hundreds packed the Scooters South 40 bar where he worked. There wasn’t a parking spot free or a dry eye in the bar as they remembered their friend and brother.
“We’re hoping to try to do the best that we can. So all of these people came out here just to support him and the family and Sabrina and Kai,” said friend Gregory Smith.
Mark was part of a brotherhood of motorcycle riders. And his riding brothers said this fundraiser is just one way they show their love.
“Everybody gives a little something and we auction it off to the highest bidder and the money goes to her to kind of help her get through life,” said Friend Jules Carter.
And as a member of the brotherhood, through thick and thin, being there for one another is just part of the deal.
“If it’s an accident, if a house burns down, if somebody gets divorced what have you, we’re here to help each other out because that’s what a brotherhood does. He was a good guy, he was a good kid,” said friend Rick Liebman.
And to raise awareness and keep his memory alive, his brothers now want his life memorialized in a special way.
“I want his name on it. I want it to be the Specialist Mark R. Calcut Jr. Memorial Bridge and that’s how I hope to keep his legacy alive,” said Smith.
Mark’s friends said in his short three years in Tulsa he touched so many hearts and his friendly smile will be missed by so many who called him, friend, brother and Revolver.
His friends hosted a previous fundraiser to support his family shortly after his unexpected death.
Friends say Mark Calcut Jr. could always light up a room and had an infectious smile and laugh.
“I think it all starts with the infectious smile,” said Dakota Murillo. “A young man that really went out of his way to make everyone feel that love.”
Calcut Jr. had just proposed to his fiancé Sabreena on Christmas Day. The proposal was just a week before the wreck that took his life.
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“We want to do as much as we can for the family in their time of need,” Murillo said.
The Other Bar hosted an open mic night after his death to raise money for his fiancé and son to support them during this difficult time.
“That’s what this community is about,” said Murillo. “We get together when people are having a great time and we get together when people really need each other and I think that’s something that’s very special.”
Tulsa police investigated the wreck that killed Calcut Jr. on December 31, 2022. Police say he was on his motorcycle around 5:00 p.m. when he was trying to get on the Highway 169 ramp from I-244 westbound. Police say his motorcycle hit a truck and a guardrail then he was thrown off the bridge. The highway was shut down for several hours during their investigation.
He had a baby boy with his fiancé Sabreena. The money raised Tuesday and on a GoFundMe page will help support them.
“One of the things that is probably the most meaningful is when you see somebody that meant so much to his community,” Murillo said.
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