IROQUOIS, Ill. (WCIA) — An act of violence left one dead in Iroquois County and the small town where it happened reeling.

A man shot a woman outside of Iroquois while she was parked on railroad tracks on County Road 2150 North. But the strangeness doesn’t stop there.

The Iroquois County Sheriff’s Office said a truck driven by Nicholas Gregory, a 39-year-old from Milford, was parked on the wrong side of the road on the crossing. He left it, went into a nearby home and stole the owner’s car.

Gregory drove back to the tracks where 57-year-old Angela Taylor was parked. The sheriff’s office said he got out of the car, walked towards Taylor’s car and shot her once with a pistol. He then drove away in his truck.

Taylor was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead. However, the village board president said the suspect was seen acting aggressively toward other people even before shots were fired.

“A guy who was trying to get his kid buckled into his car seat, he read his license plate number and he’s like, ‘is everything all right?’ And he [Gregory] just started shouting, I’ll kill you”, said Village Board President Joseph Vaughn. “And then because there’s a big shouting match, apparently, because the guy over here, he was in the garage, he walked out and just to see what the yelling was all about. And then the guy drove down and stopped next to him and he’s like, ‘I’ll kill you.'”

Vaughn said after that, he drove out of town and in the direction of where the shooting happened.

Mona Gordon said she was watering her plants when she saw a truck parked on railroad tracks less than a quarter mile from her house. Then, she saw a man walking towards her.

“Then I grabbed the phone, and I went to the side of the house, and I called 911,” Gordon said.

Gordon has lived in this house with her husband for 29 years.

“This is a big shock,” she said. “We’ve never had anybody come to our door.”

Gordon said Monday was the scariest day of them all. While on the phone with 911, she saw the man, who Iroquois County Sheriff’s Office has now identified as Gregory, bend down to pick something up.

“[At] about that time, the 911 operator told me to get in the house and hide,” Gordon said. “This person was coming through my front door.”

She said Gregory had a confused look on his face.

“And all I could say was get out of my house,” Gordon said. “And this person just kept coming towards me.”

After yelling that phrase a couple more times, he finally left, and she called 911 again. The sheriff’s office said he stole her car and drove it back to the train tracks where his truck was.

That’s when Gordon said she heard a shot. Law enforcement confirmed Gregory fired one round from a pistol. He hit 57-year-old Angela Taylor, who later died at a hospital.

“That could have been me laying in my house,” Gordon said.

Even with this close call, Gordon is thinking more about the Taylors.

“I thank God for that, but I just I am just sick over Angie,” she said. “Very, very nice woman. Very nice.”

The sheriff’s office said Gregory was found in Indiana and brought back to the Iroquois County Jail. He’s been charged with first degree murder and the investigation is still ongoing.