Walker's daughter Meadow, 15, was reportedly attending the charity event with her father and saw the crash, Hollywood Life reports.
Walker's father Paul Snr said his son had been trying to spend as much time with his daughter as possible and worried that the movie business was taking away precious family time.
"[He told me] I want to take a hiatus, she’s just 15 and I don’t have much more time to be with her and then boom, he got another movie. He would say, ‘I don’t know what to do.’” Walker Snr said.
Walker, who was the oldest of five siblings, was raised in Sunland. Family and friends were comforting the actor's loved ones at the family home.
"I’m just … glad, that every time I saw him, I told him I loved him. And he would say the same thing to me," Walker Snr said.
You can’t beat friends at a time like this. His brothers are all taking it pretty hard.”
The Santa Clarita Valley Signal reported that the Porsche crashed into a light pole and tree and burst into flames. The fundraiser, to benefit victims of Typhoon Haiyan, took place at a nearby racecar shop. Attendees rushed to put out the flames with fire extinguishers to no avail.
“We all ran around and jumped in cars and grabbed fire extinguishers and immediately went to the vehicle. It was engulfed in flames. There was nothing. They were trapped. Employees, friends of the shop. We tried. We tried. We went through fire extinguishers,” Antonio Holmes revealed.
Walker was reportedly only in the car because an employee at Always Evolving - the high-end auto shop where the fundraiser was being held - was having trouble moving the car, which kept stalling.
According to gossip site TMZ, Rodas told the employee he would move the car himself and jumped in behind the wheel. Walker then reportedly told Rodas he hadn't been in the Porsche yet so the pair took the car for a drive around the surrounding streets.
A representative for the Los Angeles County Coroner told gossip site TMZ that the bodies of Walker and Rodas are currently unidentifiable and that their autopsies will most likely be delayed until later this week.
Walker's publicist Ame Van Iden confirmed the actor's death. A statement on Walker's Facebook page said he was a passenger in a friend's car, and that Walker was in the area to attend a charity event for his organisation Reach Out Worldwide.
Walker's representatives also quickly shut down a fake Facebook page in the name of his daughter Meadow.
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