DAYTON — A memorial is set up at the intersection of Germantown Street and Gettysburg Avenue in Dayton where Leasha Owens and Turell Justice were shot in the early morning hours of March 13.
The two were at a stoplight at the intersection when a vehicle pulled up to the right of them and opened fire, they were taken to Miami Valley Hospital where they later died, according to police.
Owen’s close friend Chrisha Taylor was there that deadly night and watched her friend die.
Taylor said she had asked Owens to go out for a fun night out, Owens hadn’t been out to the club for months.
Owens would be out less than 30 minutes before the shooting happened, according to Taylor.
Taylor said she and a few friends met with Owens and Justice at the K-9 club in Jefferson Township before they left to go to another spot.
As they approached the intersection of Germantown and Gettysburg, Taylor said a car pulled up near her car and sped up.
The next thing she heard was the friends in the car with her screaming.
Owens and Justice were caught in a flurry of bullets coming from the car Taylor saw speed past her.
“When I saw her she was breathing and I was telling her to stop talking ... I was trying to prevent her from bleeding so much,” Taylor told News Center 7′s Brandon Lewis.
“It all happened so fast,” she added.
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Taylor is heartbroken over the loss of her friend and recalls her bubbly personality.
“She was a good person, she was fun ... whoever did this they didn’t know what they were doing,” Taylor said through tears.
Taylor said that Owens’s youngest son is 3 years old, and said he wants to know where his mom is.
Taylor isn’t sure how to explain to him what happened.
She wants to know who did this to her friend; she wants justice.
“I really want them to feel miserable,” Taylor said.
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