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 in northern United States, 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.
Jorah Shane was recovering in a Billings hospital Thursday, while the suspect in the shooting, Jesus Deniz, also known as Jesus Deniz Mendoza, 18, was in a jail cell.
Police arrested Deniz Wednesday morning about 120 miles away from Pryor, the small town in Montana state where the shooting happened.
In an interview with the FBI on Wednesday, Deniz admitted to shooting three people and then driving away in their car because "he was getting tired of waiting around, and because the daughter had laughed at him," according to a court statement.
The FBI confirmed Jason Shane, 51, and Tana Shane, 47, were killed in the shooting, but would not identify Jorah Shane as the wounded person, saying the FBI does not provide information about potential witnesses.
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