Woman, 51, Kills Self After Shooting Teen : Crime: Witnesses say she became distraught after learning the 19-year-old was moving out of her house. He is recovering.

Distraught that a 19-year-old man she had a romantic interest in was moving out of her house, a 51-year-old woman shot and wounded him Wednesday, then fatally shot herself, witnesses and police said.

The woman, Andrea Kritzmira, told the man, Trinity Lee Harl, “I can’t live without you anymore,” according to her 20-year-old nephew, Andrew Coleman, who witnessed the shooting.

“Those were the words I heard before I heard the gunshot,” he said.

Kritzmira died three hours later at North Hollywood Medical Center, police said. Harl was listed in good condition at Mission Hills Hospital.

Coleman said Harl had lived with Kritzmira for more than a year, but they were not romantically involved. Coleman’s aunt, however, had wanted a romantic relationship and was disturbed when she learned Harl moving his bags out of the rundown house about 12:30 p.m., Coleman said.

Kritzmira pleaded for the young man to stay, and when he refused she shot him once in the stomach, Coleman said. The teen-ager staggered into the street with Kritzmira on his heels.

As stunned neighbors watched Harl run bleeding down the street, Kritzmira ran back into the house, put the revolver to her own head and fired, Coleman and other witnesses said.

“She shot herself right in front of me,” a visibly shaken Coleman said.

“Apparently they were living together and the young man wanted to terminate the living arrangement,” Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Eduardo Funes said. “It upset her so much that she shot him and then turned the gun on herself.”

Alex Gurola, a neighbor, said Harl emerged from the house shouting “Help me” and grabbing his stomach. While a few neighbors scrambled to find bandages for Harl, Gurola said he heard Kritzmira say she was “going to kill myself,” before she ran back into the house.

Family members said Kritzmira, an unemployed mother of one son, had a history of strange behavior and was often jealous and possessive of Harl.

One unidentified family friend, who helped Harl when he ran into the street, said she was shocked by the shooting.

“It’s still so hard to think about,” she said. “It just doesn’t seem real.”