Carter Roy

Cheryl pounded on the door, begging to be let in, begging to talk to them.

She pleaded with Johnny through the door to stop cursing and threatening her mother.

She gripped the knife in her hand.

Lana told Johnny to leave one more time and whip the door open.

Behind her mother, Cheryl saw Johnny, his hand raised high, holding something, a weapon, a gun.

Cheryl described a split-second impulse that sent her hand forward with the knife right as Johnny approached her.

As Cheryl put it, for three ghastly heartbeats, her and Johnny's bodies fused.

Johnny uttered his final words.

My God, Cheryl, what have you done?

He walked backwards.

Cheryl's eyes never left his until she noticed the bloody knife still in her hands.

Cheryl had just stabbed Johnny.

The blade punctured his kidney into his vertebra and aorta.

Horrified, Cheryl screamed, dropped the knife, and ran into her room.

She feared Johnny would come after her.

But all that came was Lana's repeated screams for Cheryl's help.

Cheryl fearfully tiptoed back into Lana's room, where Johnny still gasped for life.

Lana was on the floor giving Johnny CPR.

A realization sinking in, Cheryl ran back into her room.

Trembling and sobbing, she called her father for help.