Roberts was walking through a Hollywood parking lot in the afternoon when he heard the screams of a woman. He found a man on top of her, attempting to subdue her with punches and slaps. Roberts was unarmed except for his camera, and so he shouted to the man that his picture had just been taken.

1973年。下午，罗伯茨走过好莱坞的一个停车场，突然听到了女人的尖叫声，他过去发现女人身上有一名男子，男子试图殴打女子，当时的罗伯茨是徒手，没有办法拯救女子，除了他的照相机。罗伯茨声称他要喊人来。

The man shouted back that he didn’t care—and continued to beat the woman as Roberts watched helplessly. This commotion finally brought a security guard, who told the man to stop—but when he continued wrestling with the woman, who was screaming for her life, the security guard leveled his pistol across the roof of a car and shot the man in the head, killing him. Roberts’ final photograph shows the instant before the guard pulled the trigger. 

该男子大声的回答“我不在乎”，而且他也没在意。并继续殴打女子，罗伯茨只有眼睁睁的看着。最终这场闹剧引起了一个保安的注意，他叫男子停下，而男子则继续着，女子则尖叫着。保安抬起他的手枪放在一辆汽车的车顶瞄准施暴男子的头部，一枪结束施暴男子的生命。罗伯茨拍摄的照片瞬间显示保安准备扣动手枪扳机。