‘I don’t have my person’: Wife hopes husband wounded in Miami Gardens shooting will come home

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – As Miami Gardens police examine a potential street rage capturing final Wednesday, the sufferer’s spouse tells Native 10 Information that she’s praying each day for her husband to return house.

Somebody shot Robert Gomes, a mechanic, as he was engaged on a consumer’s automotive close to Northwest 166th Avenue and thirty second Avenue.

Lucimara Gomes stated her husband, a mechanic, was engaged on a consumer’s automotive when he received right into a verbal altercation whereas driving house with somebody on a dust bike.

“I consider it was simply an alternate of phrases and he shot,” she stated.

Robert Gomes was struck with a bullet fired via the motive force’s facet window.

“He works very laborious,” Lucimara Gomes stated. “He works very laborious for you, for his household.”

Robert Gomes is in secure situation at Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Truama Middle, however has an extended street forward of him, his spouse says.

Lucimara says she doesn’t have her husband, whom she describes as her “greatest good friend,” at house and it hurts her to the core.

“I don’t have my particular person,” she stated. “He is aware of me. He’s received my again.”

Robert’s whole life is his household, Lucimara Gomes stated. He has two younger youngsters, Sara, 10, and Noa, 8.

She stated Robert nonetheless can’t communicate, however can write.

“One of many first issues he (wrote) is ‘how is Noa and Sara?’” Gomes stated. “I stated ‘OK, they know and we’re going to be okay.’”

Lucimara Gomes stated she’s been involved with detectives from the Miami Gardens Police Division each day.

Anybody with data on the crime is requested to name Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.