Photo via Lenny Robinson’s Facebook page.

This is some very sad news to kick off the week: Lenny B. Robinson, best known as the Route 29 Batman, died last night after he was struck by a vehicle on I-70 near Hagerstown.

Robinson became a viral sensation in 2012 after he was pulled over in his black Lamborghini—custom made to look like the Batmobile—in Silver Spring, Md. Robinson, of course, was dressed head-to-toe in a full Batman costume. He wasn’t wearing the Batman suit because he was crazy, or because he was an actual superhero—though many saw him as such. He was wearing it on the way to a nearby hospital, to see sick children and cheer them up with a visit from the Dark Knight.

Robinson, the Post reports, had “cleaned up in the cleaning business,” earning him enough money to buy his own Batmobile. His obsession with Batman, Robinson told DCist in an interview in 2012, stemmed from his son’s obsession with the caped crusader. So he bought the suit, the Batmobile, and figured out how he could use his superhero obsession to bring joy to the world.

Robinson began buying Batman toys and memorabilia that he would deliver to sick children throughout Maryland and the District. But after his minor run-in with the law went viral (he was pulled over because his standard issue plates were custom-made with the Dark Knight’s symbol), he began to take his operation across the country. He flew to British Columbia to pick up a new Batmobile and then drove it home, stopping at hospitals along the way to cheer up sick children.

According to the Post, Robinson was struck last night after his Batmobile broke down in I-70 near Hagerstown.

Like the comic-book version of the caped crusader, Robinson taught us what it meant to put others before yourself and do good, but unlike the Batman we saw on pages and on screen, he showed us what a real-life hero looks like.