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24 hours after sam dreher had been shot, his condition began to deteriorate rapidly. sam's sister, cindy, was there when the family decided to take him off life support. >> i hated it. i thought of him like he was one of my children. i loved him that much. >> reporter: were you able to be with sam? were you able to hold his hand and say goodbye?
Time. this time immediately after sam had been shot. >> that same man. it just gave me chills. >> came running up the stairs towards me. i just looked at him and said what are you doing here? >> she recognized him and you can hear her on a 911 call. >> i didn't see -- i don't know. >> what are you doing here? >> i remember him just kind of making this motion like whoa. then he ran off. >> did you start to think in those split seconds that this mystery man was really after sam? >> yeah, i mean it was definitely a suspicion. >> it must have been such a puzzle. >> yes. >> puzzling too for detecti...
Mcknight also tried to aid the victim. >> there was just blood everywhere. and i didn't -- i just didn't know what to do. i ran back into my apartment and got towels. >> as the minutes ticked by, trish began to worry the shooter might still be in the area. >> then all of a sudden, you start to think, wow, i wonder where the person is that did this and for all i knew, the person upstairs shot him. >> but those questions would have to wait. soon paramedics arrived on the scene. they learned the victim was one of their own. it was firefighter sam dreer. the paramedics immediately little airlifted...
Wondering who could have been responsible for his shooting. how scared are you knowing that there's a shooter on the loose? >> you was terrified. >> she told detectives about the strange man she had seen multiple times around her apartment complex. the same man who appeared moments after sam was shot. >> they said could you describe him? i described him. >> little did she know a man fitting that very same description had just been arrested. he had approached sheriff's deputies moments after they arrived on scene and confessed to the shooting. >> the deputy that had him in the back of the patro...
As cindy lutz raced to the hospital, all she knew was that her brother sam had been shot. >> it was a nightmare. it seemed like we were traveling a thousand miles. we just -- we just could not get there fast enough. >> when cindy finally made it to the icu, sam's wife danielle was already there waiting in the hallway. >> she started crying. and i said is he alive? just tell me he's alive. she said he's alive. >> but the prognosis wasn't good. >> and the doctor said he was shot four times and i'm thinking wrong place, wrong time. i didn't know what happened. >> the responsibility of finding