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I am trying to be calm, but
Sharp's accountAnd
Sharp also shared her story of what unfolded outside of Burns in a YouTube video.
The teenager had traveled to the refuge last week with her mother and six of her siblings to sing religious and patriotic songs. Sharp said she was in the other car -- separate from McConnell -- because she planned to sing at the community meeting in John Day late Tuesday afternoon.
Sharp said that Finicum was driving to the meeting and that Ryan Payne was in the passenger seat. She said she was sitting in the back seat between Ryan Bundy and Shawna Cox.
Sharp didn't immediately return a Facebook message seeking comment.
Sharp said that after they were stopped by police, Payne was trying to get her and Cox safely out of the car when police took their first shot.
"He put his hands out the window, he was trying to talk with them," said Sharp, who was raised in Kansas but lists on her Facebook page that she is currently living in Montana.
"Ryan (Payne) said, 'We have women in the car, let the women out," she said, "He stuck his head out and they shot at him... but they missed him."
Sharp said that they began to realize that the police "meant business" and that Finicum, who was driving, yelled that he was going to continue driving so that he could "talk to the sheriff."
"He drove and we all got down on the floorboards and they just started firing at us, shooting at us a bunch of times," she said, adding that Finicum reached the roadblock and his truck rammed into a snowbank.
With the car running, she said, Finicum "got out of the car and he had his hands in the air and he was like, 'Just shoot me then, just shoot me.'"
"And they did," she said. "They shot him dead."
Sharp said she thought she heard as many as 100 bullets fired and that those remaining in the car were getting "gassed." She said they were trying to find something white they could wave out the window.
Sharp said that while some in the car with her had their guns, she believed that none of the occupiers had attempted to use them. She said Ryan Bundy was hit by a bullet in the shoulder as they were ducking down in the car.
Cox said Finicum, 54, charged towards the roadblock and hit the brakes.So I'm listening to UFO nuts murmuring so maybe I can get to sleep.
"We kind of slid through the snow," she said. "Then bullets started flying."
Finicum jumped out but Cox didn't see what happened because she was on the floor. She said she thought he was wearing a bulletproof vest.
"He was yelling, 'Just shoot me, just shoot me, just shoot me,' That's all he said. And then they did,"
...She said they kept shooting him even after he was dead.
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