Valentina Shevchenko was not scared in the moment. Adrenaline took over. She needed to help her longtime coach to the hospital after he was shot.
It was only afterward, in the ensuing days, that the UFC women's bantamweight contender felt real fear.
"I didn't want to go the street," Shevchenko told MMA Fighting. "I was at the house. Every time they were working on the street, I was looking around like maybe somebody was going to attack me at this moment."
Late last month, Shevchenko and her coach Pavel Fedotov were eating dinner at a local chicken restaurant in Lima, Peru.