get to see her neighbor. michelle amerson is a longtime friend of becky who also lived nearby. her sister drove becky to the hospital. >> she got to the hospital, you know, she was demanding to get to see her friend. >> she go to bedside for kay, huh? >> yeah, she wanted to get there. >> i said, "what hospital did they go to?" >> reporter: news of the attack quickly spread to another close friend of kay's, suzanne frazier. >> i hung up the phone and i was shakin', and so, i called my boss and i said, "i gotta go, i gotta go." and i left. >> broke some -- broke some laws, huh? >> i ran red lights, i flew. i mean, i just went. >> reporter: tamara rushed to the hospital too. >> did you get to her bedside or -- >> no. >> --be able to take -- >> no. >> --a look in? >> i did not. i -- i just stayed in the waiting room. there were a whole lotta other people in the waiting room. >> but the prognosis was very bad, wasn't it? machines were -- >> yeah. >> --keeping her alive at that point even, huh? >> yes. >> reporter: the friends all