LOUD Music co-owner dies in I-94 incident

Tim Hunter was having a hard time talking about his friend Corey Kuhr.

"It's going to leave something," said the Port Huron man. "I haven't emotionally ... I have all these thoughts and stuff to process in my head right now. The shock value is still there.

"It's tough."

Kuhr, who co-owned LOUD Music and Apparel in Port Huron with David Whitt, died Wednesday in an incident at Michigan Road and Interstate 94. He was 32.

St. Clair County Sheriff Department investigators said they believe his death was a suicide.

Hunter said he and Kuhr were deejays in a collaboration called Cool Kids Communication.

"We played out at the Roche on Saturday for their Halloween party," Hunter said.

Kuhr, he said, was very much a fan of music and music on vinyl records.

"He was a very enthusiastic guy," Hunter said. "He was all about the city and the direction he thought it could go.

"He was an amazing father and just an amazing friend. I honestly feel he was somebody who would have given the shirt off his back for you.

"That was the kind of guy he was."

He said deejaying was more than just a side job.

"It was us doing it together," he said. "We like to have fun, so we did it together."

Hunter said he hit off with Kuhr from their first meeting.

"It's just one of those things," he said. "Friend of a friend, and we got together and we're just discussing music, and one day we were just deejaying together."

In an April 16 Times Herald story, Kuhr talked about his passion for music recorded on vinyl.

"It's the physical presence of something," Kuhr said. "You can buy an MP3 ... but it doesn't have that same nostalgia. That's what people want, especially the younger generation."

Hunter said Kuhr was living his dream to have a record store.

"Between him and Dave (Whitt) it was a dream that became reality this year," he said.

He said friends are grappling with the loss.

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"It's pretty somber, emotional ...It's like reality hasn't hit a lot of us yet."

A gofundme page has been started for his family. Nearly $6,650 had been raised as of 1:15 p.m. Thursday. Donations can be made at http://bit.ly/2e5XojY.

Contact Bob Gross at (810) 989-6263 or rgross@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @RobertGross477.