engine light came on then it died

Hard to say, but if you can get someone with a scanner, they can plug it in and the scanner will read the codes and that gives you a good idea of where to start. If you could drive it, AutoZone will do the scan for you. I suspect unless you know someone, you will need to have it towed to a garage......you might find someone at AutoZone that would come to your place with the scanner, if you slipped them a few $$