This story previously aired on Oct. 7, 2023. Nicole "Nicki" Lenway , a crime scene investigator for the Minneapolis Police Department, was gunned down in broad daylight -- shot twice at point-blank range in a parking lot on the evening of April 20, 2022.
"Someone wanted me dead," Lenway tells "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty in her first television interview. Lenway was shot while picking up her child from a parenting center. "That's when my life changed forever.
" Surveillance cameras captured the shooter targeting Nicole Lenway. Hennepin County District Court "I'm halfway in between my vehicle and the door. And this person comes running up from behind me," Lenway tells Moriarty.
"Shots were being fired. I fell to the ground ..
. And the shooter stands over me and continues to try to shoot ..
. I felt my neck and then could see the blood." The shooting was caught on surveillance video.
It was also witnessed by a woman in her car sitting at a red light. "I ..
. was just drivin' home ..
. and I saw a person run up to another person," said Emilie Clancy, who pulled over to help until first responders arrived. "I heard two bangs and that other person collapsed.
" Lenway is alive today. But who wanted her dead? A GOOD SAMARITAN'S QUICK THINKING SAVES SHOOTING VICTIM'S LIFE As Emilie Clancy later told police, she couldn't quite believe what she saw and heard on that April evening as she drove home from having dinner with a friend. Emilie Clancy : I was coming up and I saw the two .
