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Obirek had her mom’s Yorkie with her and was about to hop on her e-bike when someone approached her to pet the dog. The pair got to talking and ended up visiting an apartment on the third floor where a cat breeder supposedly lived.

“I walked in the home and walked into the middle of an almost murder which was very, very shocking,” said Obirek.

“And I pretty much saved her life … I walked in and she was covered in blood,” Obirek said.

“She didn’t say anything and the woman in the apartment said, ‘Don’t worry, she’s in good hands. I’m helping this girl out. I gave her a place to stay for a month and we’re helping her out through some hard times.'”

About the blood, Obirek said the woman told her, “Don’t worry, it’s just Tabasco sauce.”

But Obirek noticed a large gash on the back of the injured woman’s head and neck.

“It was clearly a knife wound, and I says, ‘Oh my gosh, hon, if you’re not OK, tell me,’ and that’s when I noticed a huge pile of her hair. It was sitting on the floor in a pile of her blood,” Obirek said. “I said, ‘Oh my gosh, you’re not OK. This woman needs an ambulance.'”

That’s when one of the men inside the apartment decided Obirek shouldn’t leave.

“(He) said, ‘Grab Bridgette. We can’t let her go, she’s seen too much,’ and I pretty much pretended like I had my brother-in-law and my boyfriend outside downstairs waiting for me,” Obirek said.

“I had my bike helmet in one hand and my cellphone in the other and the little dog on my shoulder and I pretended to call my brother and my boyfriend and I says I was supposedly in some big trouble, can you please come up to (the third floor) and all of a sudden they let me go and I took her with me.”