A young Texas father was shot dead last week after using his body to shield his 4-year-old son from the bullets of an armed robber – as his pregnant wife watched in horror.
Juvenal Antero, 24, was with his family in their Dallas apartment Saturday afternoon when a pair of strangers knocked on their door, asking to borrow a plunger, the victim’s wife, Elizabel Cardenas, told station WFAA.
The uninvited guests then forced their way into the apartment – and one of them displayed a gun.
“I slammed the door [the robber’s] hand, and I grabbed the door with all the strength I could pull,” said Cardenas, who is 11 weeks pregnant.
Antero ran to get his own gun and returned to find his son at the bar of the armed intruder.
“My husband jumped in front of my son and took a bullet for my son,” Cardenas said in a separate interview with NBC DFW. “My husband was able to return fire, defend our family, defend my son.”
Juvenal Antero, 24, right, was shot dead while protecting his 4-year-old son from robbers’ bullets. Family Distribution Antero, left, and his pregnant wife, Elizabel Cardenas, right, were victims of a deadly armed home invasion. Family Distribution
Antero was shot once and collapsed on the floor as the robbers fled.
“He said, ‘They hit me. They hit me. I will die. I don’t want to die here,’” Cardenas told WFAA.
Antero was rushed to an area hospital, where he died from his injuries.
Antero and Cardenas’ son witnessed the entire horrific episode, which left him traumatized.
A pair of burglars knocked on the family’s door in their Dallas apartment, asking to borrow a plunger. WFAA Bandits forced their way into the family’s apartment and opened fire on Antero, after he confronted them with a gun. WFAA Cardenas, center, said her husband “took a bullet” for their son after one of the intruders pointed a gun at the boy. WFAA
“My son kept asking me, when will my father come back to life? Things a child should never witness or ask. I don’t wish this on anyone,” Cardenas said.
The couple are just months away from welcoming their second baby, who was conceived after two previous miscarriages and years of fertility difficulties.
On Wednesday, Antero and Cardenas were scheduled to go to her prenatal appointment to hear their baby’s heartbeat for the first time and get a sonogram.
Instead, the family is now busy planning Antero’s funeral.
Antero was shot once and died at the hospital. The Cardenas Family Circular calls on the suspects responsible for her husband’s death to turn themselves in. WFAA
“I have to welcome this new baby into the world without a father,” the grieving widow said, describing her murdered husband as having a “heart of gold.”
So far, no arrests have been made and no suspects have been publicly identified in connection with Antero’s murder.
His wife called on the armed bandits to surrender.
“No one’s life should be taken because you want what we have,” Cardenas said. “You’re not going to get what we had or what we continue to have.”
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