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Thursday night, a witness is speaking up after helping two gunshot wound victims involved in the shootout on Interstate 75 north.
The interstate was shut down for hours while police searched for clues as to how it all unfolded. That shoot-out has left two people, a 15-year-old and a 20-year-old hospitalized and police looking for the second vehicle involved.
"I never thought in my life I was gonna go through something like this and to be able to help somebody," said a driver who was the first to pull up on the scene.
She does not want to be identified.
"I almost crashed into a car because they were shooting, you hear the shooting. Next thing you know you see a car flipped," she said.
A car was flipped over into oncoming traffic.
"I hit the wall between the two sides and I just flipped over," said Ismail Sallm, the innocent driver involved. He was stuck upside down not knowing what to do next.
"Should I go out or not, know what I mean, should I go out and cars hit me or should they hit me inside of my car," he said.
One of the two cars involved in the shoot-out ran off the highway into the bushes. Two males in the car were shot.
"Next thing you know I hear somebody screaming from the bush, 'I'm hit' it was a young Black boy and I seen that he was shot in the back," the female driver said.
Next, she saw another young man exit the car and collapse.
"I seen that he was gone for a few seconds so I started giving him chest compressions. After that he came back I started talking to him trying to keep him there with me," she said.
While trying to stop the bleeding, asking him his name and age.
"Seeing that broke me because I have a 14-year-old kid and nobody stopped. There was no cops on scene, so it was fresh," the female driver said.
She is now telling her children and hoping other parents tell theirs, the senseless violence must stop.
"These kids nowadays need to understand they need to back away from all this bang bull crap, drugs, gun violence. This world is going crazy," she said.
This is an ongoing investigation. Police are still searching for the other vehicle and individuals involved.
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