Days after a dad was caught on camera being shot as he shielded his children from gunfire at Bronx car dealership, a family friend says he has lost his job.
An innocent bystander, 39-year-old Anthony Jefferson was struck in the right thigh when the shooting erupted Monday, officials said.
On a GoFundMe campaign page started Thursday by close friend Serena Wingate, she wrote that Jefferson had lost his job due to the injury and also has to have surgery to remove the bullet.
He temporarily can’t walk and lost his two jobs as a construction worker and a head painter.
Wingate said she set up the GoFundMe to help the dad with medical bills and help his kids with therapy after the traumatic experience.
According to the family friend, the father, and his three kids were at the dealership shopping for a new vehicle to surprise his wife for her birthday.
That’s when shots rang out inside the Boston Road business. Three men opened fire on another man, who fired several rounds back, police said.
Surveillance video shows the dad diving and huddling over the kids on the floor behind a couch. Glass windows shattered as gunmen fired from between cars.
None of the children were injured, police said.
The NYPD is still trying to identify the men seen opening fire in de Blasio’s New York.
Watch:
09/22/2020 Hero Dad Shot while using his body as shield to protect children in a Bronx NY Car Dealership (uncensored graphic) pic.twitter.com/buARtStIhq
— NYC Real News 🇺🇲 (@schoolecommerce) September 23, 2020
You can comment on the article after the ads and subscribe to the Daily Newsletter here if you would like a quick view of the articles of the day and any late news:
JEEZ! I never thought I’d ever see anything like this in my country. It’s like the Tombstone of old!!!!
I hope you make a speedy recovery. Now that, that is out of the way. Did you vote for Quomo or Bill DeBozo? If you did then you deserve all that you voted for.
I will get them some money, but I will not use ‘GoFundMe’ as they discriminate.
Jefferson and his family should move to another state. This IS the new Gotham.