'He was so happy': Friends recount Paul Walker's last hours

On the day that ended with his death in a car crash, actor Paul Walker was co-hosting a charity event for the victims of the Philippines typhoon in Santa Clarita, California, with his non-profit organisation, Reach Out Worldwide. [caption id=“attachment_1261805” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Paul Walker from a scene in The Fast and The Furious.[/caption] Reach Out Worldwide (ROWW) was crated by Walker and his friends in 2010 as a disaster relief organisation to help victims of the Haiti earthquake. Walker had taken a trip to Haiti, and after seeing the devastation in the country, had contacted his friends to set up the organisation to meet the need of skilled resources. ROWW has since helped victims of many natural disasters, such as the Oklahoma City tornado in June of this year. At the charity event, Walker and his associates were part of a ’toy drive’ to collect toys for the children who survived the typhoon in the Philippines. According to gossip website TMZ, after the toy drive, Walker went for a drive in a red 2005 Porsche Carrera GT, which belonged to a friend. “The early news reports that Paul Walker has died. I was just with him no more than 2 or 3 hours ago. Talking cars, he was so happy seeing all his friends get together to look at the cars. I hope it wasn’t him in the wreck, but if it was, he would have passed doing something he loved, which is driving cars,” his friend  Townsend wrote on Facebook following the news of Walker’s death. “The world lost an angel in Paul. He dedicated so much of his life to helping disadvantaged kids and people who are in need, with his charity recently assisting those in the tornadoes in the Midwest and the trauma in the Philippines. Just today we had hundreds of toys donated for kids, all apart of Paul’s charity. If this sad news indeed true I’m going to do whatever I can to keep Pauls goals for the charity alive.” “He had been so happy,”  Townsend added to E! News. “He was there at the event and had managed to raise thousands and so many people had brought toys. So many people had come out to support the charity and he was with his friends. It was a great day for him. He was so overwhelmed to have so much support.” Walker had been gearing up the past few months to reprise his role as Brian O’Connor in “Fast and the Furious 7,” which is set for a 2014 release date. He was also set to promote  his new film “Hours,” out Dec. 13.