The balloon is seen in video gliding along a sunny, bright blue sky when the desperate man, just a black dot from the vast distance, lets go and plummets many feet to Earth.
"I just hope he went quickly and I'm grateful for the people -- and I hope to meet them -- that surrounded him and protected his body so he wasn't just out in the middle of the road," his daughter said.
One of the victim's friends tried to shield her as the gunfire erupted, but couldn't save the teen, who was an innocent bystander, according to a source.
The gunman smashed his Nissan into the police car and then fired through his windshield at the cruiser, striking it -- but missing the officers inside.
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