GARDEN CITY, Mich. (WXYZ) – Police killed a suspect who shot a good Samaritan after a crash in Garden City Tuesday morning, officials said.
It happened around 7:15 am at the corner of Ford and Venoy streets.
Michigan State Police say a man got out of his car at a gas station and rushed to render aid in a nearby crash. But one of the drivers involved in the crash opened fire on him.
The good Samaritan is 48-year-old Antione Williams of Westland. He was shot twice – once in the cheek and once in the ear.
Antione can be seen on surveillance video running to the gas station for safety as the shooter, a 37-year-old Hamtramck man, runs after him. But on the way, the suspect shot a woman outside the gas station.
“I didn’t do anything. Please don’t shoot me,” the woman can be heard saying in the video.
The woman escaped but for Williams, the horror is not over.
“I was going to jump on the back where the clerk’s desk is, but I didn’t do that. So I just went right behind the coffee island,” Williams told 7 Action News from his bed in the hospital “He walked in, pointed the gun at me. I’m like, ‘Bro, you shot me, man.’ He’s like, ‘I’m going to kill you.’
“I think his gun went off a couple of times because it clicked a couple of times, he pointed it at me and it didn’t go off.”
The shooter can be seen slipping a few times and missing his target, while Williams can be heard pleading for his life telling the shooter, “Please don’t do it.”
“When we were looking at each other, he looked right at me, we were eye to eye, probably a couple of feet,” Williams said. “He was like, ‘I’m going to kill you f******, I’m going to kill you f******. It’s like he knows me, but we’re total strangers. And that’s what I leave here when I run.”
Shortly after, the shooter was shot and killed by the first officer of the Garden City Police Department.
Meanwhile, even in the face of violence, Williams helped others.
“I tried to tell everybody, ‘Don’t get out of the cars.’ Active shooter. Backup.’ Even though he needed help, I kept telling him, “Don’t get out. Don’t get out of the car.
A few came to Williams’ rescue.
“I have to find out who they were because really, they pulled me and gave me things. And at that time, the time that the police came. And I’m blessed. I’m so blessed to be here,” said Williams. “I look at my glasses and glasses…looks like he saved a bullet.”
Guglielmo is out of danger, but still has bullet fragments in his cheek. However, his passion for helping people is not deterred and he will continue to do so when needed.
