James Norman, who was pulled and killed in violent Norco Carjacking, was about to meet the family for dinner, says daughter

Norco, California (KABC) – The family of a 79-year-old man, who pulled and killed a brutal carjacking montag on Monday, said they were ready to meet him for dinner before the fatal turning of the events.

The victim's daughter tells Eyewitness News that her father was a veteran of the army who was in frail health. She said he had survived a few close calls in his life, from the case from a ladder to an airplane crash. She says it is difficult to know that her father died so violently.

James Norman-known as Jim for his family and made friends with his daughter and son-in-law to dinner for dinner when he made a short stop at an Arco station on Hidden Valley Parkway in Norco.

“So he probably went to clean his car, and he was probably waiting for us to call him and say: 'Hey dad, we are now on the way and we'll get you,'” said Noran's daughter Nicole Lauritsen.

But instead of calling her father, Lauritsen said that she received a call from a sheriff of a sheriff in Riverside County.

“” Your father has an accident. Is there a way to follow his phone? ” And I said, “No, but I can follow his car”, and that's where it went, “said Lauritsen. “At that time I didn't make sense at the time, of course because it was an investigation, they couldn't say anything.”

But it was not an accident. The authorities said that the 79-year-old had the back of his Chevy Trail Blazer sucking in the car wash, and the engine was still running. Then the investigators said that 29-year-old Ryan Hewitt had jumped to the driver's seat and was still standing from Norman from the back door.

“He didn't have his hearing aids, so I guess he didn't hear the vacuum, and suddenly the car only returns,” said Lauritsen. “He was too old and frail to get out before the door hit him.”

The investigators were able to find Norman's vehicle in an apartment complex on the river in the rivers, since an Airtag Lauritsen had put in her father's car to keep an eye on him.

She is a grateful police found the suspect and grateful to the strangers who stood at her father in his last moments.

“I just hope that he went quickly and I am grateful for the people – and I hope to meet them – who surrounded him and protected his body, so that he was not just in the middle of the street,” said Lauritsen.

A gofundme was founded to cover the costs of a memorial service for Norman and some final medicinal bills.

In the meantime, Hewitt is expecting that he will be released in court because of his charges for the second degree murder and crime. It is held against a deposit of $ 1 million.