(NewsNation) — A fisherman who heard crying and a gunshot near the area where Mica Miller died described his experience to NewsNation.

Miller's death was officially ruled a suicide, but her family and friends have called for more investigation, calling attention to her estranged husband, JP Miller, and alleged abuse in the relationship. They say JP Miller also stalked and harassed his wife once they separated.

A new Netflix docuseries has drawn increased attention to the case.

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NewsNation's Rich McHugh spoke to Johnnie Jacobs, who was at Lumber River State Park in North Carolina when Mica Miller died, not long after her death.

Jacobs himself was killed in a car accident less than a year later.

"I heard a cry," he told NewsNation. "Then I heard a gunshot, maybe probably bout two minutes or so after, I started hearing the crying."

Jacobs showed NewsNation the area of the river he was fishing on when he heard the crying and gunshot.

"There's a path that comes in there, there's a path that comes into here, there's a path leading straight to where her belongings were laid at," he said, describing how Miller might have reached the area where she died.

Jacobs picked up Miller's belongings, which he said included a driver's license, bank card, keys and about $500, all of which he turned over to law enforcement.

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"I never seen nothing," he said, of Miller herself.

When he spoke to NewsNation, Jacobs also addressed theories from people who tried to link him to Miller's death.

"Quit trying to be investigators. I did not do this," he said. "There is no way in this world I would harm anybody like that, not even my worst enemy would I do anything like that. I was just here fishing."

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