GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A woman is talking about the desperate moments she and her boyfriend experienced while racing a man wounded in a double-shooting to the hospital.
Mandy Brock says her boyfriend's younger brother was shot twice and she held one of the wounds to help stop the bleeding while on the way to the hospital.
"We were just up in his room, and he had called Matthew, my boyfriend," Brock said. "He was like, 'I got shot. Help me.'"
Brock told Channel 2's Rikki Klaus about the rush to help save her boyfriend's little brother after the shooting around 2 p.m. on Pendleton Place, near Suwanee.
She says the wounded brother pulled up in a car, they moved him to the passenger seat, and took off for the hospital.
"When we got in the car, we were like, 'What happened?'" Brock said "He's like, 'Tried to sell some shoes, and they robbed me, and they shot him."
She says he was hit twice, once below the collar bone, and also underneath the ribs.
Brock says she applied pressure, and told him he would be alright, and to calm down.
"He was freaking out, and I was like,'David, you have to hold them so you know can control the bleeding, make it a little better," Brock said.
Gwinnett County police say both of the men who were shot got their own rides to Gwinnett Medical Center.
"We also heard on the radio that a gunshot victim had arrived at Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville, so we dispatched another set of officers to go to that hospital," police said.
After the officers arrived, the other man showed up.
"Both (are) suffering from life-threatening injuries," police said.
Meanwhile, officers back at the scene say the gunfire started in the street, a few bullets even flying into a house.
But they didn't strike anyone inside.
Monday night, Brock says the family will be by the teen's side.
"I'm just trying to remind him he's going to be fine. It's not that bad. It could have been worse. It's not his fault," Brock said.
Investigators say they're still trying to figure out what led up to the violence and whether both patients are victims or perhaps one is a suspect.
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