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Sandra Herrera said she had a bad feeling about her daughter’s friend, Adrian Anaya.

The two had been friends in middle school and recently started hanging out again.

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On Tuesday, she heard Anaya, 28, had been shot and killed near Coors and Gun Club SW the night before, and she began to get worried when she realized her daughter hadn’t come home from dinner with him.

Then she got the news. Her daughter, Angelica Herrera, 27, was dead.

“It’s a parent’s worst nightmare,” she said. “She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. She always avoided confrontation, she shouldn’t have had anything to do with it.”

According to an arrest warrant affidavit filed in Metropolitan Court, Angelica Herrera, Anaya and a third friend, Arthur Boardnax, were driving around in Herrera’s car and stopped in front of a house on El Charro SW shortly before 11 p.m. Monday.

Clarissa Sanchez, the mother of Anaya’s 2-year-old son, lives in the house, and she and Anaya had been arguing all day, according to deputies.

Broadnax said when the trio pulled up to the house, they were confronted by a man with a gun.

“Arthur said they were only there for a few seconds when he observed an unidentified subject pointing a gun at the front passenger window and begin to shoot,” the deputy wrote in the complaint. “Arthur ducked his head and yelled for Adrian to drive. Adrian drove for a short distance before crashing the vehicle at the end of the block.”

Boardnax said he jumped from the car and ran to a convenience store for help.

When deputies arrived, Anaya and Herrera were dead inside her car. They had both been shot multiple times.

Detectives are now looking for Eric Armando Ferrer, 27, also known as Daniel Rubio, to charge him with two counts of murder, assault with attempt to commit a violent felony and shooting at a motor vehicle. He wasn’t in custody Wednesday night.

Although Sanchez told the Journal she wasn’t involved Tuesday, she told deputies she had invited Ferrer – a friend since high school – over to the house she lives in with her mother because she was afraid of Anaya. Police had been called to domestic disputes between the couple in the past, according to court records, and she told deputies Anaya had harassed her recently, and she had to change her phone number.

Sanchez said she was inside when she heard gunshots, and she ran outside to see a white car flee. The car then crashed into a shed in a yard two houses down.

“Clarissa said she looked out the front door and yelled to Eric, ‘What the (expletive) did you do?’ ” the deputy wrote in the complaint. “Clarissa then observed Ferrer run eastbound away from the residence.”

Anaya’s mother, Mary Candelaria, said she believes her son was at the house in hopes of talking with Sanchez. She said he was trying to escape when he and Herrera were shot.

“Adrian would never have put a girl in that kind of danger,” Candelaria said. “He was trying to leave her house, trying to get away.”

Candelaria said although Anaya’s relationship with Sanchez had been “toxic,” he was committed to staying in his son’s life.

Now the family is just praying the man who killed him gets caught.

“If anyone knows where that man is, I want them to turn him in,” she said.