A pregnant woman has been shot and killed after a shocking incident in Florida. The shooting was apparently a result of road rage, according to Florida police. They say the woman, 35-year-old Sara Nicole Morales, a local librarian, pulled a gun on a biker she intentionally hit with her car.
Witnesses confirmed that she did drive into the biker, but when she tried to flee, the situation escalated. Ultimately, the woman was killed by that biker.
Andrew Derr, 40, along with other witnesses, reportedly followed her home on his motorcycle and killed her. He says it was self-defense, but her family doesn't buy it.
The entire incident is bizarre. Police said in a statement that the woman purposely drove into the biker with her car, but that it was a "minor crash." The biker was not injured and did not fall off the motorcycle. Witnesses said that she fled the scene after hitting him. On Saturday, November 20, police responded to 911 calls about the hit-and-run just after 5 p.m.
Derr and others followed her home "in attempt to help identify her for law enforcement," but the situation quickly turned tragic. "Morales went into her house and re-emerged a short time later," the police statement reads. "Morales confronted the witnesses and Derr, as they were on the phone with 911. Morales pointed a handgun at the witnesses and Derr."
Derr was armed, as well. He had a valid Florida concealed weapons permit. He pulled out his weapon and fired multiple rounds, killing the pregnant librarian.
Police arrived shortly after the shooting. Body camera video shows the tense moment police arrived at the scene. Officers ordered Derr to the ground. While he cooperated with their commands, he also tried to explain what had happened.
"Please don't shoot me!" he is heard saying. "I'm not going to move. That girl tried to kill me. She pointed a gun at me."
"I'm so sorry," he tells them. "She tried to kill me, and those other people are armed too, they have guns too." He added, "I didn't do anything wrong to defend myself."
Police say Derr has been cooperating fully with the investigation, but it is unclear why Morales drove her car into him in the first place. Wilber Perez was the woman's boyfriend. He said that she must've been "really scared" by whatever happened during the road rage incident.
"She is not the kind to give trouble or just go about pulling a gun on people," he said.
Morales leaves behind an 11-year-old child.
