Renisha McBride witness says she “just wanted to go home”

A Renisha McBride witness has recounted the day she was killed.

A preliminary hearing was held this week in the shooting death of Renisha McBride. Theodore Warder, the man accused and responsible for her death, will now face a murder trial.

On Wednesday, th witness Carmen Beasley recounted the hours before McBride’s murder. At around 1 a.m. on November 2, McBride crashed the car she was driving into Beasley’s husband’s Dodge Charger. Beasley testified that she heard a “boom”, and immediately called 911. Beasley saw McBride walking away, as if she was hurt, and holding her head in her hands.

Beasley noted that McBride did return to the accident and that was when she talked to her.

“I asked her if she was okay, and she said yes,” Beasley said. “She got in the car and she tried to, you know, start the ignition up, and I explained to her, I said, ‘Honey, your car is damaged, you’re not going to be able to start the car.’”

Beasley tried to help McBride call a family member, but she couldn’t find her phone or give a phone number to call.

“She just kept saying she wanted to go home,” Beasley said. “I was just concerned about her well-being.”

Beasley attempted to keep McBride in the car while she tried to call 911 again. She noted that McBride’s hands were bleeding, and she was disoriented. While Beasley was placing the second 911 call, McBride wandered away. Hours later she was dead.

The disorientated McBride ended up on Theodore Warder’s porch where she attempted to get help.

Warder claims he shot in self-defense as he believed it was an intruder trying to enter his home.

Renisha McBride, 19, was killed in Dearborn Heights, Mich, located just west of Detroit.

McBride’s family believes her death was racially motivated, had she not been African American, she might still be alive today.