DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A woman who tried to save a Jonesboro man shot at a drive-in movie theater said she will be forever haunted by that night.
Sarah Morrison went to the the Starlight Drive-In with her boyfriend Monday night.
"My heart really goes out to his family and his friends and it just grieves me that the last few moments of his life were the time that I got to meet him," she said.
Morrison told Channel 2's Erica Byfield she heard glass break and a cry for help. She said investigators later told her the victim was shot through his car window.
"I sort of peered out the window, tried to see what was going on, and then I heard him yell that he had been shot," Morrison said.
Morrison, a former paramedic, ran to the victim, 28-year-old Mitt Lenix.
Police said Lenix was having car trouble, asked for help and was shot in the chest.
Morrison told Byfield she tried to clear Lenix's airway and comfort him.
"I just said that help was going to be on the way soon and that 'we are here with you,'" she said.
DeKalb County police charged Quentric Williams with murder in Lenix's death. He had his first court appearance on Thursday, but the judge did not set a bond and scheduled preliminary hearing for the first week of June.
Morrison said she feels much better now that the suspect is behind bars.
"I think it will really stick with me, because it's not the first gunshot victim that I've seen, but it was actually seeing someone murdered right in front of me. [It] was very different and upsetting," she said.
Morrison also said investigators told her Williams shot Lenix through a car window.
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