A tourist shot by a migrant in Times Square sent a horrifying audio message to her husband back in Brazil, pleading for “help!”. help! ”
“Dear me, I’ve been shot, my love! I’m sending you my location, my love. Help! Help!” Tatiere Ribeiro Lemons said in an audio message broadcast Tuesday. Stated. Campinas e RegianBrazilian news agency.
Luis Fernando Orosz, who was sitting next to his injured wife during the broadcast, said Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa allegedly fired at a security guard at JD Sports on West 42nd Street, hitting Lemmon in the leg. He said he still has to control his emotions when he thinks about that moment. On the streets on February 8th.
“I have a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter. It’s a carnival. [in Rio de Janeiro] Then I went to change her costume. I was doing an exchange with the girl at the store. She called me and I was in the middle of a conversation and she pressed her audio.
“I was in shock. She is my wife. What was my daughter going to do without her mother? Where was she? Was she on the ground?” Orosh continued.
Lemons, 38, who was visiting the Big Apple with her mother-in-law, previously told NBC 4 that she was standing near the register holding a pair of tennis shoes she had bought as a gift when shots rang out around 7 p.m. Ta.
After hearing “a sound like an explosion,” she felt a burning pain in her leg and dragged herself to the back of the store, she recalled in a Feb. 9 interview.
Lemons was taken to Bellevue Hospital and received 13 stitches to close the wound on his leg. She returned to her home in Campinas on February 10th.
“I believe I was born again. [It was] Bad experience but thank God. I’m happy to be alive,” Lemons told Brazilian news outlets, adding that he had no plans to return to the United States “any time soon.”
Rivas-Figueroa, who punched Lemons and then pointed a gun at pursuing New York City police officers, was charged as an adult with attempted murder in connection with the shooting. A judge ordered him held in a juvenile detention center without bail.
