The pregnant woman shot by her jealous husband recalled Sunday the terrifying moment when he threw her to the ground and aimed a gun right at her head.
“I fought for my life,” 27 year old Daisy Torres, said Sunday in an interview in her Bushwick apartment. She’s recovering after her estranged husband, 62 year old Juan Torres Collazo, blasted her in the chest outside Public School 384 on Friday.
She was picking up their 5-year-old daughter when Collazo confronted her with a .22-caliber pistol. “He came out of nowhere and pointed the gun at my head,” Torres said in a near-whisper in Spanish. “I kept trying to get the gun away from my head.”
Torres, who is four months pregnant, met Collazo about six years ago in her native Dominican Republic. He became abusive, she says, when they moved to New York a year later.
She filed a restraining order after leaving him more than a year ago and is in the process of divorcing him. But that wasn’t enough to keep him away from her Friday.
“He kept saying ‘I’m going to kill you,’” she said. “I threw him to the ground. He shot twice. He was determined to shoot me in the head.”
Hector Reyes, her current boyfriend and the father of her unborn child, heard her cries for help.
“I jumped out of the car and tackled him,” Reyes said. “He shot twice, and once more once we had him on the ground.”
Two young men witnessed the struggle and ran to help, he said, holding Collazo down until cops came.
“That’s when I noticed I had been shot in the chest,” Torres said. “I was afraid for my life and my baby.”
The baby was unharmed, but the bullet remains stuck under her breast. An operation is scheduled in two weeks to remove it. Collazo is charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal contempt for breaking the order of protection. “I’m afraid he will leave jail one day and finish what he started,” Torres said. “I feel lucky I’m alive and that my baby is okay.”
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