“He came up, pulls up at a normal speed, stops, points, shoots and drives off. It’s as simple as that,” Dolin said. “I did not get a good description.”

The woman who stopped to help Dolin said Friday that she had no suspicions at the time that he could have been responsible for his own wound. Sherry Alveson, of Malta, said she stopped after her daughter saw Dolin waving his jacket on the side of the road trying to flag down passing vehicles.

“He had blood down his arms, all over his clothes, and he was bleeding and shivering and shaky,” Alveson said of her initial encounter with Dolin. “I wasn’t going to leave him sitting there.”

Alveson said that even as she waited with the wounded Dolin for emergency personnel to arrive, he began talking about his memoir. She said he brought it up again when she visited him in a Glasgow hospital the next day.

She only became suspicious after reading in Friday’s paper that Danielson had been released. Alveson said that made her wonder if the shooter was still at large or if Dolin shot himself.

Still, she said it wouldn’t have changed her decision to stop along the highway last weekend.

“Whether it was self-inflicted or somebody else did it, he needed help,” Alveson said.