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The owner of a lakeside restaurant is describing the fatal shooting of two good Samaritans which was recorded on surveillance video as the community plans an event to honor the men.The video captured events leading to the shooting and deaths of National Guardsmen Charles Judge Jr. and Jonathan Prins.Justin Brooks, the owner of the Frayed Knot Bar, described the deaths "horrific." He has been going through surveillance footage of the shooting with investigators. Brooks said surveillance video shows as many as 10 people trying to stop Joseph Mills, 25, from beating a woman."You see a girl running from the parking lot, trying to flee the shooter by the docks as he starts beating on her," Brooks said. "After they got him off and pushed him down, that's when he got on the ground and fired shots.”Brooks said that's when Judge and Prins, who had heard the shots, got off their boats and ran toward the gunfire.Judge, who was from Moore, and Prins, from North Carolina, were both active military members."They're trying to calm him down, and then he shoots them and then ends up walking off nonchalantly," Brooks said. "Like if you were walking down an aisle at a grocery store and you were shopping at a grocery store. He put a shirt kind of over his head to cover his face and just kind of walked off like nothing never happened.”Mills told a judge on Monday that the woman stole drugs from him. Mills has been charged with two counts of murder.The Lake Murray community is putting together a boat procession on Friday to honor Judge and Prins, who many are calling heroes.Brooks said the boating event is needed to help the community heal.Ken Jones, who is helping to organize the event, lives on the lake and is close friends with Brooks and several witnesses."That's not what we represent out here," Jones said. "We're not going to let one guy come into our establishments, or any other place around our community, and put a bad impression on what we have built so hard together.""One of our boats is going to have the military guys and a chaplain on it, and we're going to have flags at half-mast,” he said. “And we're just going to do a parade all the way out to the Frayed Knot,""These guys were heroes,” Jones said. “I mean, they protected a girl. They lost their lives protecting somebody they didn't know."The boat procession will start at 4 p.m. at 220 Jakes Landing. It will end at the Frayed Knot.