A Florida woman identified only as Belinda tells WPBF she still would’ve jumped in the water if she knew that the man she rescued from the rough waves off Vero Beach last month is, in all likelihood, a man currently wanted in connection with the shooting deaths of his ex-wife and her new partner.

“I could not leave him in the water no matter what,” Belinda said because well of course she didn’t know at the time and it’s the only way to make peace with the March 24th morning rescue which, upon later police examination of a witnesses’s video, very likely shows 64 year-old Jesse Ellis being dragged out of the surf. Ellis is still on the loose, being sought in the murders of his estranged wife, Stacie Mason, 49, and a coworker thought to be her romantic partner, 56 year-old Danny Ooley.

Both were found shot dead that very morning, like no more than a few hours earlier, and it’s unclear if the cops even had Ellis on their radar by the time Belinda rescued him. So if she’s secretly beating herself up over it then she should consider that part too. And he’ll probably be arrested before he murders anyone else. It’s not like the dude’s a serial killer, just a miserable asshole who killed his victims in a jealous rage. Hopefully for her and of course others’ sake he’ll be caught without any further incident or so much as a shot fired. Would be real swell of fate to let her off nice and easy.

And extra hopefully for her she doesn’t end up smoking a joint on a patio outside of a house party and some assclown friend of friend starts in with “So what if you could like kill Hitler when he was a baby, would you do it?” which of course prompts a closer acquaintance goes “WELL! Belinda here once heard a guy screaming for help…” and then the whole goddamned night is ruined for her.