and she was laying on the ground, and i could see blood everywhere. >> in a panic shaun called 911, and then called her brother brett. >> she says mom's been hurt. she's got a hole in her neck. she was frantic. >> then police and paramedics arrived and cordoned off the place where she lay. >> i could see numerous bullet holes in the back of her neck. >> keith mason was a detective, torrance pd. >> in all my years i've seen people shot in homicides but never this many times. >> this was really an execution? >> definitely. >> what shaun had seen, her mother on the floor, had been so confusing, but now she saw nothing because they kept her away. >> one of the paramedics met me, and i looked at him and said will she be okay? >> thinking she was still alive? >> yeah. i wasn't processing. but he finally just looked at me and just shook his head no.