her upstairs neighbor, dianne mcknight also tried to aid the victim. there was just blood everywhere. and i didn t i just didn t know what to do. i ran back into my apartment and got towels. as the minutes ticked by, trish began to worry the shooter might still be in the area. then all of a sudden, you start to think, wow, i wonder where the person is that did this and for all i knew, the person upstairs shot him. but those questions would have to wait. soon paramedics arrived on the scene. they learned the victim was one of their own. it was firefighter sam dreer. the paramedics immediately little airlifted him to the nearest trauma center as word of the shooting spread. and it s danielle. she s screaming into the phone. you have to come. he s been shot. he s been shot. and i said who s been shot? and she screams out sam.
apartment complex in brian, texas. that s the town next to college station. the doors open. there s a few people inside. music playing, people having some drinks. she struck up a conversation with her friend s upstairs neighbor. he was 24. hadn t been to college but mixed in easily with the students. was he a likable guy? yeah. he seemed very nice. in fact, he had no problem sharing intimate details with kristen about his personal life. he had been married and somehow the conversation goes to him telling me how he found god and i made a lot of mistakes, i wasn t a great husband. you guys got into quite the personal conversation for having just met. i was young and i think that was normal. he was drunk. not long after the party started, it abruptly ended. kristen s friend got into a fight with her boyfriend. there was alcohol involved so i was worried it would get out of hand. everyone left but not kristen. she was concerned about her
friend and stuck around talking to the upstairs neighbor. so you were feeling protective. he actually said to me, are you worried about your friend? he said yes i am. he said we can go to my apartment and you can have a phone to call. she and the neighbor walked up the staircase to his apartment. it s directly above her apartment and he opens the door and i was barely stepping into the door and he just pushes me in and slams the door shut. he locks the door and immediately grabs a remote that was right there and turns the stereo up to a deafening volume. kristen reached for the door to leave. and he pushes me back and that s when he starts making some demands. all of a sudden it s very serious and aggressive. and almost to the point where i thought he was joking. but he was serious and demanded she undressed. i kept saying i m not going to do that. he said you re going to do it. he grabs me by the throat and he s choking me and the second
it was a hot saturday afternoon in sarasota when registered nurse trish murphy heard a disturbance coming from the stair well just outside her apartment. it sounded like somebody was being chased and then i heard somebody yellow, god, no. the unmistakable sound of gunshots followed. four of them in quick succession. trish immediately called 911. 911, what s the location of your emergency? i just heard gunshots and somebody screaming outside and somebody running outside. i think my heart was probably going a gazillion miles a minute. trish slowly peered out of her apartment door and saw a man lying in the stair well bleeding. she knew he wasn t a resident of the apartment complex. i had no idea who he was. my concern was to get him over on his side because he was face down in a really big pool of blood. trish wasn t the only one at the scene. her upstairs neighbor, dianne
that s the town next to college station. the door is open. there s a few people inside. there s some music playing and people having some drinks. reporter: she struck up a conversation with her friend s upstairs neighbor. he was 24, hadn t been to college, but mixed in easily with the students. was he kind of a likable guy? he seemed very likable. he was very personable. seemed very nice. in fact, he had no problem sharing intimate details with kristen about his personal life. he had been married, and somehow the conversation, you know, goes into him telling me how he had found god. i made a lot of mistakes. i wasn t a great husband. you guys got into quite the personal conversation for having just met. oh, yeah. well, i was young, and i think that was normal and he was drunk. not long after the party started, it abruptly ended. kristen s friend, hosting the party, got into a fight with her boyfriend. there was alcohol involved. it was a worry that it would get out of