​A South Carolina woman driving an SUV who was pulled over by a police officer for running a red light helped police apprehend a murder-kidnapping suspect who was in her car by moving her lips as if to say “help me,” he reports . Guardian.

Officer Kayla Wallace pulled over a woman driving a Jeep for running a red light on the evening of May 28, North Myrtle Beach police said in a statement this week. In addition, 29-year-old Collin Bates was also with the driver.

Suddenly, when Bates looked away, the driver moved his lips repeatedly without making a sound, as if telling Wallace to “help me,” police said.

Wallace then pulled Bates out of the car, put him in the back of her car, and spoke to the driver of the Jeep alone.

The woman explained to the police that the man had just shot another person and forced her to take him in her car to flee the scene, which was later confirmed by the police. Immediately, the police radio station announced that a vehicle had just been involved in an armed attack in the area, authorities said.

Wallace found a handgun that was hidden under the chair Bates was sitting on, and the officer arrested him.