SOUTHWEST FLORIDA - WINK News talked with the lawyer for the woman police say Officer Andrew Widman saved the night he was killed. He says Crystal Turcotte is dealing with a lot of emotions since the shooting.

Nearly one week after the shooting that changed Fort Myers, the girlfriend of the shooter is dealing with grief and fear of threats.

“She's coping as well as can be expected," said Crystal Turcotte's lawyer Steven Leskovich.

He says the woman officer Andrew Widman is credited with saving, is trying to comprehend what happened nearly a week ago.

Steven Leskovich says Turcotte has been getting threats, disturbing phone calls and even visits to her home... blaming her for Abel Arango killing Officer Andrew Widman.

"{She} has stayed low key, has moved, relocated I guess you could say, and still very upset and traumatized by what happened,” said Leskovich.

But she says officer Widman saved her life.

“She feels had somebody not come to her aid... that it may have been her, " said Leskovich.

Leskovich says Turcotte did not go to Arango's funeral, held the same day as Officer Widman's, because she did not feel it was safe. She did however, like many in the community watch Officer Widman's funeral.

“When I was watching it with her she shed a lot of tears, with what Mrs. Widman said,” said Leskovich.

Two women now linked together forever in a web of grief. And while many want to know from Turcotte what happened that night, Leskovich says she wants the community to focus on healing the Widman family.

But she does have a message for Mrs. Widman.

"She wants Mrs. Widman to know that she is extremely sorry for what has happened, her condolences go out to her, and her family and her children, that Officer Widman to her she will forever be grateful to for being a hero,” said Leskovich.