POWAY, Calif. (KGTV) - Family and friends are mourning the tragic death of a man in Poway this weekend.
Thirty-eight-year-old Michael Walker died after a stray bullet hit him in the stomach as he slept early Saturday. It happened at the Sofi Apartment complex on Midland Road.
Christina Walker said her husband was sleeping in the spare bedroom so his snoring wouldn't wake her.
"All of a sudden, I heard this loud thud, and I didn't know what it was, I ran out of bed, I thought he fell and he was just standing there and I don't think he even knew what was happening, but he was just laying there in bed and got shot," said Walker.
She said they didn't realize what had happened.
"I'm looking and I'm just seeing this hole in his stomach and then I look over and there's a hole in my wall," said Walker.
She rushed him to the hospital, but he died around 3 a.m Saturday .
"I think we were still just disbelief, really not knowing, you just don't think, we don't have a gun, it's not like either one of us has ever been shot before, you just don't think, why would you think you have a bullet in you?" said Walker.
"I think we were still just disbelief, really not knowing, you just don't think, we don't have a gun, it's not like either one of us has ever been shot before, you just don't think, why would you think you have a bullet in you?" said Walker.
Walker said her husband told her he heard arguing coming from the apartment next door. Investigators questioned three people. They arrested 20-year-old Manuul Save on suspicion of murder. It's unclear if he lives in the complex or was visiting someone. He has a criminal history that includes hit and run. He'll be in court on Wednesday.
"Until I heard that they got the person, I couldn't even cry until then, not really, and then I just lost it," said Walker.
The Walkers were married less than three years. Christina describes her husband a kind and gentle man.
"When I say and stress just how amazing he was, he didn't even know how amazing he was, he was always there when somebody needed him, he was very compassionate, he was an incredible human, he just poured out love for me, and I just hope that I was able to give that to him," said Walker.
Her husband worked at Jeromes. Friends have set up a GoFundMe to help the family.
https://www.gofundme.com/tina-walker-support-fund
https://www.gofundme.com/tina-walker-support-fund
