On April 5, Ashlee Long was walking in downtown Dallas, Texas, with friends when they came across a parked Mercedes-Benz. Long’s friend, admiring the car, reached out to lightly touch the passenger’s side as they crossed the adjacent street.

That’s when the passenger in the Mercedes, 34-year-old Kendrick Flinch, jumped out of the passenger’s side holding a gun. Long’s friend pulled a gun from her purse and aimed it at Flinch, but by that point, Flinch had already fired multiple times.

Flinch shot both Ashlee and her friend. Long’s friend survived, but she didn’t. Despite several attempts by medical staff, Long succumbed to her injuries—multiple gunshot wounds to the chest. Police confirmed a nearby business captured the incident on camera, though footage hasn’t been released yet, reports CBS.

Ashlee’s family is devastated by the loss

Ashlee Long was a successful real estate agent at just 28 years old. She was in the area for a networking trip. Michelle and Henry Long were confused when they received word from police that their only daughter had been gunned down and was no longer with them.

“She was my only daughter. We would always say goodnight to each other every night. That’s how it’s been forever,” she told the outlet over a video call. “Something so senseless, just changed everybody’s life forever. I feel dead inside. She was my everything… It was heartbreaking when we got the call. There was nothing I could do. I was so far away.”

Henry, her father, struggles to make sense of why she was gunned down.

“It’s like I was in a nightmare I can’t wake up from,” he added. “If she had been there five minutes earlier, five minutes later, you know, things would be different.”

Flinch turned himself in and faces murder charges

On April 18, Flinch came forward to police to turn himself in. Now, he’s being held in the Dallas County Jail on a $500,000 bond. He faces murder charges.

Viewers of the outlet’s coverage on YouTube were unanimously sympathetic toward Long’s family, and couldn’t understand how Flinch justified shooting the woman and her friends.

“Did he think he was going to take the Mercedes with him to prison?” they wrote. “Can’t believe how one person’s ego can destroy other people’s lives. So senseless. What a monster.”

Another said the shooting was thoughtless, but couldn’t help but point out a key detail.

“The fact that she wasn’t even the one who touched the car,” their comment read.

Someone else couldn’t understand how a car was more important than someone’s life.

“That materialistic car meant more to that man than her life,” they wrote.