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A Pennsylvania man made desperate pleas to his wife to stay alive after she was shot in a rage road incident.
Ryan Eberly’s wife Julie was shot through her car’s passenger door on March 25, the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office said in apress releaseon Facebook.
“Someone shot into my car. My wife is shot. She’s bleeding badly. I need help now! Please hurry!” he pleaded with dispatch. “She’s shot in the head, but I’m trying to stop the bleeding.”
“Stay with me, Julie. Julie, keep breathing. Honey, breathe!” he told Julie before ambulance arrived.
The couple had been driving southbound on Interstate 95 at the time of the shooting.
They were headed for a getaway on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, to celebrate their seventh wedding anniversary, Ryan toldWGALlast week.
“I changed lanes, and a car was coming behind me. I didn’t see that he was going around me. I pushed him to the shoulder mistakenly. As soon as I was able, I gave him room to get back on the highway. No car contact,” Ryan said.
Not long after, the vehicle — which investigators describe as a silver or grey 2000 Malibu or Impala with dark tinted windows and chrome around the frames — came back toward the couple’s car.
“I saw in my mirror that he was passing us to the right. Gunshots were fired, and our car was hit. My wife yelled my name, and I asked if she was hit. She said yes,” Ryan told WGAL.
Julie was taken to the UNC Southeastern Hospital, where she died. Ryan was uninjured.
Julie leaves behind six children, according to the local news outlet. AGoFundMecampaign has been set up for her family.
At the time of the murder, the sheriff’s officesaidthat a $10,000 reward was being offered for information “leading to probable cause for the issuance of warrants and the arrest of the suspect(s) responsible for the murder of Julie Eberly.”
The sherrif’s office revealed on Thursday that they arrested North Carolina man Dejywan R. Floyd, 29, in connection with Julie’s death.
“Floyd is charged with first Degree Murder and Discharging a Weapon into an Occupied Property. The charges are in relation to the death of Julie Eberly, 47, of Manheim, Pennsylvania,” apress releasestated.
Robeson County Sheriff’s Office
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Floyd was booked without bond and is expected to appear in court on May 14. It is not clear if he has entered a plea at this time or if he has yet obtained legal representation who can speak on his behalf.
source: people.com
