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A woman from Surrey, British Columbia, shares her harrowing experience after she was forced to take a victim to a hospital shooting this week.
Given the sensitivity of the topic and concerns about its safety, CTV News agreed to identify her by the pseudonym “Jane”.
Jane said she was driving her son home near 128A Street and 100th Avenue on Thursday night when she noticed something alarming – a badly injured man she did not know moving away from a nearby house in distress.
“He started approaching my car and shouted that he had been shot: ‘I was shot… help me, please help me!'” She said.
Jane told her son to get out of the car and call for help. The man then boarded her passenger seat and asked her to take him to a hospital.
“I really didn’t have time to think. “I thought I was going to die,” she said. “I was afraid he would shoot me. Did he have a gun? I don’t know, do I?
She said the man was bleeding profusely and slipping and fainting.
Jane remembers him saying, “I was shot with a rifle,” and “My hand is gone.”
While driving, he became impatient and began lying on Jane’s horn to try to get people into traffic, she said.
“He prayed that he would take him in time. And I just told him, please, breathe, just keep breathing, “Jane said.
As she approached the emergency room at Surrey Memorial Hospital, the man was almost conscious.
Jane helped him through the door and he slid down.
She called 911 and the police arrived within minutes.
As the shock subsided and she began to process what had happened, Jane began calling her relatives.
“I just couldn’t breathe. I was a mess. “I’m still in a mess,” she told CTV News.
Jane said the police took her home, but the night was sleepless.
In the end, she didn’t even learn the man’s name.
Police later identified the victim as a 38-year-old man known to law enforcement and said his injuries were not life-threatening.
Authorities believe the shooting was targeted.
Jane said she did not feel she had any choice but to help the man, but she also did what she thought was right.
“And I would not let anyone die there. I wouldn’t do that, “Jane told CTV News.
Asked if she felt her actions were heroic, Jane said no.
“I’m not one to let someone die, whether it’s a bad person or a good person,” she said, her voice trembling with emotion.
“I never want anyone to suffer and die.
Police have not yet determined the motives for the shooting.
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