Dad takes action
Mom thankful he shielded kids in Bx. shooting
The mother of the three children who were caught in a hail of gunfire inside a Bronx car dealership cries every time she sees the horrifying viral video of the incident — but her heart swells with pride knowing her husband risked it all to protect them.
“I cried every time, just to know that my children were involved,” grateful mom Danica Jefferson said outside her home in the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx on Wednesday.
“It could have gone way worse. I definitely appreciate him for his act, which he did to protect our children.”
The hero dad, Anthony Jefferson, is out of the hospital and on the mend after being shot in the thigh during the Monday evening shootout at On the Road
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He was recovering at an News shows one of the Jefferson was struck in aunt’s house, the grateful hooded gunmen run up and the thigh with a bullet, offimom said. fire through an open glass cials said. Medics rushed
“The kids are not here door. him to Jacobi Medical Cenright now, I have them with Jefferson quickly scooped ter with a nonlife-threatrelatives,” she said. “We’re his three children off the ening wound. wrapping our heads around couch and brought them to “He’s in a lot of pain, so he it. It’s just starting to be a bit the floor, tucking them took something and he’s remuch.” under his own body to shield laxing,” Danica said.
Jefferson was looking to them. Police said the gunmen purchase a car for Danica for A few seconds later, a seccarjacked a green Honda her birthday, when the car ond door explodes f rom Civic with Georgia plates at dealership turned into a gunfire, sending shards of the scene and were last seen shooting gallery, she said. glass raining down on the speeding north on Provost
“He went on the lot to couch they were just sitting Ave., cops said. Their target look for a car for me for my on as the dad crawls away also ran off. birthday,” she said. “My with his children in tow, the Investigators believe the birthday is coming up, so it video shows. shooting was gang-related. was all a surprise to me.” The gunmen’s target, who The man in the tan pants,
Jefferson, 39, was sitting was just a few feet away who was believed to be a with his kids on a blue couch from Jefferson, pulled out a gang member, was doing in the dealership’s waiting gun he had hidden in his business in the dealership area about 7:20 p.m. Monday sling and fired back at the when his rivals opened fire, when two hooded gunmen suspects, hitting both the according to police sources. dressed in black stormed couch and the protective Workers at the dealership into the building and opened dad, police said Wednesday. declined to comment Tuesfire at aday.maninawhiteshirtAthirdgunmenwasalso and tan pants with an arm in targeting the man in the tan No arrests had been a sling. slacks, opening fire into the made. in