At the second party, they saw a group of young men that they didn’t recognize. They didn’t interact with them at the party, but after they left and drove away, Mueller’s group didn’t hesitate when the men pulled alongside them in an SUV and motioned for them to roll down their window. The men asked where the group was headed. When they said they weren’t sure, the men in the SUV loudly and profanely suggested the women in the car spend the rest of their night having sex with them, Mueller recalled. The women responded with disgust, and a man in Mutschlechner’s group said he didn’t appreciate the comments.
“They didn’t like that,” Mueller said. The expressions of those in the SUV changed, she recalled. They started calling the women names, and then Mueller heard three gunshots. She said she doesn’t know who in the SUV fired them. Mueller was stunned as she looked down and saw broken glass in her lap, she said. Mutschlechner slumped forward and the car veered toward another car, she said. Mueller and one of the men in the car tried to grab the steering wheel, and they hit a utility pole.
The SUV immediately took off after the interaction that probably didn’t last more than 60 seconds, Mueller said.
