SOLON, Ohio -- A woman who witnessed a man fatally shoot a woman early Saturday after a car crash said the woman had her hands up when the man opened fire with a rifle.

"I can't get her screams out of my head," the woman said.

The woman, who asked not to be named because of the nature of what she witnessed, said she heard loud screeches and the crash about 7:20 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of Richmond and Solon roads.

She said she saw a man get out of his Jeep with a rifle. The woman got out of her Ford Taurus and put her hands in the air, she said.

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The man opened fire, shooting her in the road. Solon police said the woman was found in the street and later died from the gunshot wounds at an area hospital.

The man was arrested shortly after police arrived.

The woman who witnessed the shooting said she was too traumatized and couldn't elaborate on what else she saw. She gave a written statement to police.

Another witness, Jamirra Brabson, who lives with her husband and 6-year-old daughter near where the shooting happened, said she heard four gunshots, then the woman scream.

She said she heard three more rounds of at least three gunshots.

"Then it was just silence," Brabson said.

Solon Police Lt. Bruce Felton said officers arrested a 29-year-old North Ridgeville man they believe fatally shot the woman. A 911 caller described the man firing several shots after the crash. The caller said the man paced up and down the road with the rifle in his hands.

Police said the gun was a 5.56-millimeter rifle. Felton said they are still trying to determine a motive for the shooting. He said investigators so far believe the two never met before. He said they are investigating road-rage as one possible factor in the crash.

Felton said the woman was driving northbound on Richmond Road and the man was driving eastbound on Solon Road. The vehicles collided in the intersection and the impact of the crash sent the woman's car a few feet eastbound on Solon Road.

The man's SUV flipped several times and ended up on its roof about 50 feet east of the woman's car.

The woman's back windshield was shattered with what Felton said could be a bullet.

Neither the North Ridgeville man nor the woman have been publicly identified by police. Felton said the police are in the process of notifying the woman's family and have not yet formally charged the man in the shooting.

The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is assisting Solon police with analyzing the crime scene. More than 22 pieces of evidence, including bullet casings, were marked in the intersection.

The intersection and at least one home near the shooting were blocked with police tape as police and state agents conducted the investigation.

Brabson said she moved to the Solon neighborhood nine years ago because of its quiet nature. She said residents regularly jog and ride their bikes near the busy intersection where the shooting happened.

She said she was shocked and saddened by the shooting.

"It's always quiet here. You're at peace when you come home," Brabson said. "I'm glad they arrested him. That gives us so much comfort that someone's that mentally insane is arrested. It's shocking that he could do something like this in broad daylight."

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