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‘Shoot, we’re about to die’ | Teen shows us where his dad was shot during robbery, home invasion
The robbers shot Arturo Peña within the head earlier than ransacking his house. “I noticed my dad laying there, crawling out of his room,” his 18-year-old son, Eric, advised us.
HOUSTON — A father and his teenage son in east Houston are counting their blessings after surviving a terrifying house invasion late Monday.
Arturo Peña is house from the hospital regardless of being shot within the head by one of many robbers who kicked their door in round 11 p.m.
On Tuesday, 18-year-old Eric Peña invited us inside the house on Coulson Avenue and confirmed us the place the whole lot occurred.
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“That’s the blood proper there,” Eric mentioned. “That’s the bullet gap proper right here.”
After listening to the commotion, the teenager tried to cover in a closet.
“I hid proper right here when the whole lot was occurring.”
Whereas ransacking the home, the suspects discovered Eric and compelled him right into a bathe at gunpoint. They advised him to maintain his mouth shut.
That is when he heard 4 gunshots.
“I used to be by no means anticipating that. From going to take a bathe for preparing for college to, ‘Shoot, we’re about to die.’ In a single second, that loopy,” Eric mentioned.
After the 4 robbers left, Eric heard his dad holler at him.
“My dad advised me to come back out. I advised him, ‘Are they gone?’” Eric mentioned. “I rushed out, grabbed my telephone within the closet, after which I noticed my dad laying there, crawling out of his room. He advised me to dial 911.”
WATCH: Teen takes us by means of house the place he and his dad had been robbed
Eric ran throughout the road and knocked on the door of neighbor Sonny Flores, who occurs to be a cop.
“He was very nervous attempting to contact 911, so I took over and spoke with 911,” Flores mentioned.
He stayed with Arturo till paramedics arrived.
“You recognize I felt dangerous. My first intuition was to ensure he was OK,” Flores mentioned.
Eric says the gunmen stole wallets, a telephone and jewellery. Police mentioned additionally they took some stuff from the yard on their approach out.
Police imagine the suspects focused the house.
“He’s a businessman. He has loads of tools within the yard,” HPD Lt. Willkens mentioned. “It’s doable they focused that particularly as a result of they know there’s probably cash within the place.”
Investigators have not launched an outline of the suspects but. They’re hoping to seek out surveillance video to get an outline of the getaway automobile.
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