The friend was ambushed by three men as she was getting into her car outside the Flatiron Bar and Restaurant on the corner of Flat Shoals Avenue and Glenwood Avenue, she told Atlanta police. She had just said goodbye to her friends, a man and his girlfriend, who continued to their own car not far away.

The man, who asked to remain anonymous, ran over when he heard the woman scream for help, according to a police report obtained by AJC.com. He reached for his own gun to protect her, “but was shot in the right leg before he was able to get a shot off.”