At the time Chung looked, he said, the robber on foot was trying to escape and the victim was grabbing him by the arm, calling for help , as his gray BMW rolled into a neighbor’s car.

Chung heard but didn’t see the gunshot. Spalter's wife told him a car had pulled up and the person in it fired, hitting the victim in the throat.

“When I opened the front door the victim’s wife said he had been shot. I ran and got a clean kitchen towel to put on the wound to stop the bleeding,” Chung said . “He was falling and stumbling down and I caught his head and saw the gunshot wound and applied pressure to it. He was just trying to breathe.”

The wounded man’s wife was on her cellphone talking to a 911 dispatcher as other neighbors started coming out of their homes. The dispatcher gave directions to Chung to conduct CPR on the man. Chung attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation while another man held the victim’s nose and Chung’s wife applied chest compression.

“I tried to give him mouth-to-mouth but he was at a bad angle on the steps and I just didn’t want to move him,” Chung said. “. . . He was already fading.”

Paramedics arrived . The Chungs later were told he had died before being taken away.