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a grief texas Mother recalls heartbreaking moment her husband was killed in front of their young son as he protected their family home invasion,
on sunday dallas The police department identified Arnold Sustaita Zapata, 26, as a suspect on December 30, 2023. murder Juvenal Antero, 24, WFAA reported.
Antero was inside the apartment he shared with his pregnant wife Elizabel Cardenas and their 4-year-old son when two men knocked on the door asking for a plunger. Then strangers entered and pointed guns at the couple.
“I’m slamming the door on his hand, and I’m holding the door with all the strength I can pull,” Cardenas told WFAA after her husband’s death. “My husband picked up his weapon and jumped in front of my son and protected my son. They started shooting Him.”
Cardenas said her husband had fired the shot just before she fell, recalling how she had said, “They hit me. They hit me. I’m going to die. I don’t want to die here.”
Antero was taken to hospital, where he died.
“We were everything to them. We were all that mattered to them,” he said sadly. “It’s hard not having him here because he guided me through everything. He had a heart of gold.”
A few days after her husband’s death, on January 3, 2024, Cárdenas had a doctor’s appointment to check on her unborn child.
“We had to follow our hearts,” she said. “I have suffered two miscarriages. We have been trying for the last few years. It finally happened…I have to welcome this new baby into the world without a father.”
Meanwhile, the couple’s 4-year-old son witnessed the entire shooting.
“My son cries himself to sleep. What should I do?” He asked the question.
Dallas police say surveillance footage captured three suspects fleeing the scene and getting into a red vehicle.
Authorities identified Zapata as a suspect in the shooting Sunday, nearly two years after Antero’s death. They are asking for the public’s help in identifying other suspects and locating Zapata, who remains at large.
“I want you guys to turn themselves in because what you did was wrong,” Cardenas said after her husband’s death.
He said, “No one’s life should be taken because you wanted what we had. You will never have what we had or what we have. You will never replace him.”
Zapata is described as 6’2″ and weighing 260 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair.
According to Dallas Police, the suspects are considered armed and dangerous.
He is wanted in a capital murder case.