Sahara Barkley, 24, was shot and killed late on New Year’s Day in Jacksonville
A one-year-old’s mother who was fatally shot outside a Florida gas station pleaded ‘Please don’t let me die’ to an attendant who came to her aid.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says 24-year-old Sahara Barkley was killed late on New Year’s Day.
Barkley apparently left her car running outside a BP gas station at 10.30pm on Monday when a man and a woman attempted to steal it.
The man drove off, leaving the woman behind.
Barkley confronted the woman, who then shot her.
Store clerk Nyla Garner rushed to help Barkley. Garner said Barkley kept saying, ‘Please don’t let me die, I got a baby.’
‘I am not going to let somebody die on my watch if I can do something about it,’ Garner said to News4Jax.
Barkley her car running entering a BP gas station when a man and woman tried to get inside the vehicle
‘She didn’t deserve to be shot,’ Rozella Brooks-White, Barkley’s mother, said in tears
Just hours before her death, Barkley was with her mother and her one-year-old son.
‘She didn’t deserve to be shot,’ said Rozella Brooks-White, Barkley’s mother. ‘She’s got a one-year-old son. What am I gonna tell my grandbaby?’
‘This just still feels so unreal. You see this all the time, but you never think that its going to hit your door, but it shows me nobody is exempt. Justice will be served for my daughter.’
Barkley was with her one-year-old son and mother just hours before her death
Barkley went to the gas station often because it was only a couple blocks away from where she lived
Her mother said that Barkley’s life revolved around her son and she went to the gas station often because it was only a couple blocks away from where she lived.
Jacksonville police are investigating the shooting as a possible carjacking. No arrests have yet been made.
Barkley died at the hospital that night.
Authorities are currently reviewing surveillance video trying to identify the suspects.
Store clerk Nyla Garner rushed to help Barkley. Garner said Barkley kept saying, ‘Please don’t let me die, I got a baby’