How Detective Donald Young and his alleged killer, Raul Garcia-Gomez, would wind up clashing is beyond Ana Ordoñez.

Ordoñez remembered Young enjoying himself last Saturday night at Salon Ocampo eating a plate of chile verde con carne and dancing to a norteña tune with her 14-year-old daughter, Karen.

She also remembered seeing Garcia-Gomez sitting with his common-law wife and the couple's newborn daughter. Ordoñez walked up to Garcia-Gomez's table and playfully stroked the baby.

Ordoñez attended Young's funeral Friday, where police Chief Gerry Whitman briefly thanked her for her efforts to help one of his fallen men.

Ordoñez recalled that shortly before the gunfire she was working a concession stand just a few feet away from where Young and Detective John Bishop were providing security. She recalled looking to her left and seeing plumes of smoke. About the same time, Ordoñez said she saw Young beginning to fall to the ground.

Bishop grabbed on to his partner and the two fell to the ground, Ordoñez said. She raced to cradle Young.

"Jack (Bishop) was saying, 'Stay with us, Donnie. Don't leave!' " Ordoñez said.

Ordoñez's daughter used her cell phone to call 911. Ordoñez, who was a nurse in Chihuahua, Mexico, checked the detective's pulse.

"He was alive," Ordoñez said.

Other police officers arrived at the dance hall and pulled her away.

"I was telling them, 'I want to stay with him! I want to stay with him,' " she said.