reporter: racing towards the u.s., she passed the boat slip where she and david launched from less than an hour earlier. the boat s in pursuit. she spotted a man here watering his lawn, yelling, asking if he spoke english. that man would help a distraught tiffany hartley place this 911 call. are you sure that your husband got shot? yes. he was hit in his head. okay. yes. was he thrown off the jet ski? he s in the water some place? yeah. he was thrown off the jet ski and i couldn t pick him up to get him on mine. he was just too big. what is your name? tiffany hartley. reporter: when the story broke it was almost unbelievable. americans being fired on? a jet ski chase? a narrow escape and a dead husband whose body has yet to be found. when you are describing this horrific events, you seemed somewhat detached. the victim, at least in the eyes
he d put it back on me. it s like he didn t know what to do with me. do i shoot her? do i not? that s when they left to go meet the other boats. reporter: racing towards the u.s., she passed the boat slip where she and david launched from less than an hour earlier. the boat s in pursuit. she spotted a man here watering his lawn, yelling, asking if he spoke english. that man would help a distraught tiffany hartley place this 911 call. are you sure that your husband got shot? yes. he was hit in his head. okay. yes. was he thrown off the jet ski? he s in the water some place? yeah. he was thrown off the jet ski and i couldn t pick him up to get him on mine. he was just too big. what is your name? tiffany hartley. reporter: when the story broke it was almost unbelievable.
it s like he didn t know what to do with me. do i shoot her? do i not? that s when they left to go meet the other boats. reporter: racing towards the u.s., she passed the boat slip where she and david launched from less than an hour earlier. the boat s in pursuit. she spotted a man here watering his lawn, yelling, asking if he spoke english. that man would help a distraught tiffany hartley place this 911 call. are you sure that your husband got shot? yes. he was hit in his head. okay. yes. was he thrown off the jet ski? he s in the water some place? yeah. he was thrown off the jet ski and i couldn t pick him up to get him on mine. he was just too big. what is your name? tiffany hartley. reporter: when the story broke it was almost unbelievable.
the forehead. reporter: did you know immediately yeah. he wasn t he wasn t there. he was gone. you know, yelling for help and looking for anybody who would help me, but knowing in was not going to be anybody. reporter: but somebody was still there. she claims standing over her, a gunman in one of the boats. reporter: did you think, this was it? uh-huh. i told him, please, don t shoot. please, don t. reporter: in a moment of apparent confusion, hartley says she saw her chance to flee. the gun would be on me, and then he d take it off and then he d put it back on me. it s like he didn t know what to do with me. do i shoot her? did i not? that s when they left to go meet the other boats. reporter: racing towards the u.s., she passed the boat slip
reporter: did you think, this is it? uh-huh. i told him, please, don t shoot. please, don t. reporter: in a moment of apparent confusion, hartley says she saw her chance to flee. the gun would be on me, and then he d take it off and then he d put it back on me. it s like he didn t know what to do with me. do i shoot her? do i not? that s when they left to go meet the other boats. reporter: racing towards the u.s., she passed the boat slip where she and david launched from less than an hour earlier. the boat s in pursuit. she spotted a man here watering his lawn, yelling, asking if he spoke english. that man would help a distraught tiffany hartley place this 911 call. are you sure that your husband got shot? yes. he was hit in his head. okay. yes. was he thrown off the jet ski? he s in the water some place? yeah. he was thrown off the jet ski and i couldn t pick him up to get him on mine. he was just too big. what is your name? tiffany hartley.