HELENA, Mont. (AP) – Bullets whizzed past a woman’s head as she fled from an 18-year-old gunman who had posed as a stranded motorist to convince her family to help him on the roadside of a Montana Indian reservation, the woman recounted to relatives.
The man claimed he had run out of gas, then pulled a gun, demanded money and opened fire when Jorah Shane followed her mother’s order to run, Ada Shane said, relaying the story as told to her by her wounded niece.
The relatives listened to Jorah Shane’s story, made sure the television in her hospital room was kept off, and struggled with how to tell her that the man had killed her mother and father in Wednesday’s shooting, Ada Shane told The Associated Press Thursday.
Jorah Shane, 26, did not know her parents’ fate before she went into surgery Wednesday night for the bullet lodged in her spine.
“Last night before she went in, she told everyone to go look for her mom, she’s hiding in the field,” Ada Shane said.