A woman who witnessed the deadly hit-and-run crash of White Settlement firefighter Trevor Gage on Saturday, shared her story Monday.
Marina Salcedo pulled up with her two kids in the car.
“I said it’s okay close your eyes,” Salcedo said about what she told her kids. “Close your eyes you guys turn around and close your eyes.”
Salcedo was the first driver to pull up on the scene where Gage was sprawled on the street near his motorcycle. Gage’s close friend who was riding along side him was trying to call 911.
“Every second counts right now,” Salcedo recalls thinking. “So I told him, ‘Give me the phone! Give me the phone!’ Because he was pretty distraught through the whole time. He was like, ‘He’s the one that takes care of me!’ It was pretty sad.
Police say Gage and his friend had some sort of verbal confrontation with the driver of a black pickup on I-30. An argument that turned deadly as they exited the highway.
“He did say a drunk driver just hit my brother,” Salcedo remembered from the scene. “(He said) he tried to hit me first. But then he hit my brother. And that’s all I remember. I don’t know if he kept talking. He was pretty distraught.