Madison Brooks death: LSU students hailed as good Samaritans after alleged Baton Rouge rape

Mourners outside St. Peter Catholic Church dressed in pink in honor of LSU student Madison Brooks' favorite color ((KR/Mega for Fox News Digital).

Two LSU seniors' lives drastically changed at 3 a.m. Jan. 15, when they stopped to be Madison Brooks' "guardian angels," as Brooks' mother now calls them. 

Brooks, a 19-year-old LSU sophomore, was dying on a busy, four-lane highway in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after she was allegedly raped and let out of her suspected attackers' car along the side of the road. 

Her blood-alcohol level was .319%, almost four times the legal level to drive, according to authorities, and she stumbled into the street, where she was hit by a car.

Beau Adams, 21, was on his way home after his shift as a bartender with his friend, Kathryn Devillier, 21, when they saw a truck in the road hit what they initially thought was a deer. 

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Madison Brooks, 19, was an LSU sophomore when she was allegedly raped in January 2023 before she was fatally struck by a car. (Ashley Baustert)

They didn't know who she was or what was going on, Adams told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview

"I was going to pull over to help the guy move the animal so he can get on his way," Adams said. "Once we pulled off the side of the shoulder, we realized it was a girl."

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The driver who hit Brooks "was just standing there in shock," Adams said. "The truck was wrecked. She was on the ground, and I was trying to stay calm in the moment to try to help in any way we could.

"Once I realized she wasn't breathing, I got on my knees and kept asking,