Among the several witnesses who reported seeing Morgan injured both inside and outside the Arena, one Metallica fan inside says she seemed upset with blood on her chin but declined his offer to help.
Outside the Arena, another concertgoer says, he was on the southeast side of the building waiting for late-arriving friends to meet him around 9pm when he heard a commotion at an entrance.
It was some shouting, says the 44-year-old man whod traveled from Fredericksburg to Charlottesville and who asked not to be identified because of the high profile nature of the case. Moments after the shouting stopped, he says that a young woman with long blond hair and dressed all in black including,
he says, a black Pantera t-shirt like the one Morgan was reportedly wearing approached him, put her arm out, bent, as though to walk arm in arm with him, and said, Lets go.
It seemed somewhat aggressive, he says.
Waiting for his friends and concerned that her behavior seemed unusual, he says, he declined and turned to walk away. The young woman responded, he says, by cursing at him and kicking him.
It wasnt that hard, he says of the kick, but it was disturbing enough that he immediately called his girlfriend to relate the encounter.
She told me I should call the police and report her, he says. Now I wish I had. The concertgoer, who now believes the commotion he heard was Morgan being denied re-entry to the Arena, says he reported the encounter to police on Monday, October 19, when he learned of the disappearance. Police have confirmed that Morgan ended up outside the Arena sometime around 8:20pm and made multiple attempts to re-enter.
Minutes after the concertgoers encounter, another witness says, a woman resembling Morgan was walking across the street with several companions.
It was right about 9pm when we were driving down Massie Road with JPJ to left, says a Richmond bookkeeper/musician whose late arrival prevented her from hearing opening acts Gojira and Lamb of God but got her there in time to spot a wobbly blonde woman step in front of the car.
With the blonde were four young, white men a conspicuous group, says the witness, because of the direction they were headed: away from the Arena.
In addition to a black miniskirt, tights, and a black shirt, the young blonde was wearing distinctive high-heeled boots, says the witness, a mother of two who spoke on condition of anonymity over concern for getting pulled into the fray.
Until now, the missing womans boots have been described as knee high, but this witness insists they were over the knee. (Through a spokesperson with the Harringtons recently hired PR firm, Gil Harrington says the boots she saw Morgan try on prior to the concert were not above the knee.)
The men, says the witness, were allegedly laughing.
I thought, That girl should have no business going off with those guys, walking into an empty parking lot when the concert is getting ready to start.
The blonde, however, did not allegedly seem distressed and even, seemingly as a joke, shook one leg at the men, also clad in black. The witness estimates the time at 9:05pm since she placed a phone call to a friend a minute later while still on Massie Road.
It wasnt the last time the Richmond woman saw the young blonde. After she, her husband, and friend parked near U-Hall, she says, she saw the same group of five gathered around a vehicle in the RV Lot, or Lannigan Field overflow parking lot the spot where Morgans purse and phone were found and one of the last places police have officially placed her.
I figured, Theyre going to party before they go into JPJ, says the woman, who estimates the RV Lot sighting as 9:15pm. When she learned about the disappearance on Monday, October 19, she says, she immediately relayed her information to police, who have interviewed her as many as five times in the past three weeks.
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