SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A witness shared her account of her attempt to save a man who was shot and killed at a Southwest Miami-Dade gas station.
The shooting occurred at the Wawa gas station in the area of Southwest 248th Street and 112th Avenue on Monday afternoon.
Ebony Martin said she was purchasing gas when she noticed the two men fighting.
“My last stop was gonna be Wawa, get some gas and some ice,” she said.
But her stop turned out to be the start of something she never expected.
“I don’t even think the shooter even left yet. I just ran out there,” she said.
Martin said she noticed two men arguing near a Honda Pilot.
“When I walked around the other car, I noticed the handgun in his hand,” she said.
At around 5 p.m., she heard the gunfire that would wound 34-year-old Juan Carlos Hoyos.
“I just heard one pop,” she said.
Investigators said 43-year-old Pablo Juarez shot Hoyos.
Martin, who is pregnant, quickly sprang into action.
“He made his way to his car. That’s when I pulled him out of his car. I told him, I said, ‘I’m here.’ I said, ‘I’m gonna help you as much as I can!’” she said.
Martin, a certified nursing assistant, said she did everything she could to try to save the man’s life until paramedics arrived.
“And I laid him down, like, the adrenaline rush had to feel like I was laying on the baby on the ground, like I did not feel his weight. He was much bigger and taller than me,” she said.
Paramedics arrived and airlifted Hoyos to Jackson South Medical Center, but sadly, he did not survive.
His family said he had a wife and several children and worked with his alleged killer.
According to the arrest report, the two co-workers met at the gas station at 3:45 p.m. and sat in Juarez’s car for about an hour. At some point, they got out of the SUV and had an altercation that escalated into gunfire.
Juarez left the scene but was caught and cuffed nearby by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies.
“I saw him walk away, the direction he went,” said Martin.
Martin said she used her medical training to the best of her ability. She wants the victim’s family to know that she did everything she could to save their loved one’s life.
“To the family, just know, I did not let him go down without a fighting chance. I couldn’t let him go down,” she said.
Juarez appeared in bond court on Tuesday. He faces a second-degree murder charge and was denied bond.
“That was senseless. That was very senseless. Two co-workers probably having a disagreement about what happened at work,” said Martin.
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