Baby almost brain dead after being shot in chest by teen moms boyfriend The US Su
A ONE-month-old baby boy is clinging to life after being shot in the chest by his teen mother's boyfriend.
Little Armani Cazares has been in intensive care at University Hospital in Texas since Saturday morning ailing from a gunshot wound.
His mother, Daisy Delacruz, described the horrible scenario as a "nightmare."
"It's a nightmare. My son was here and now he's not," the 18-year-old mom told Fox San Antonio on Monday.
"Now the doctors are telling me he's not going to make it. That there's no hope. That he's practically brain dead."
Delacruz's 19-year-old boyfriend Lance Tello Jr. is also accused of shooting his own mother than 14-year-old sister inside his family's home in San Antonio at around 2:00 am Saturday.
She and Tello began dating when she was four months pregnant - although he wasn't Armani's biological dad, he acted like a father to the newborn, she said.
The couple didn't live together, but Delacruz said and her son would sometimes stay at his house on weekends.
Tello worked six days a week at the Maruchan Texas Inc. ramen noodle factory.
But last Friday, he told Delacruz he was feeling stressed at work and asked her to pick him up early, she said.
Tello seemed normal, however, and Delacruz said he even asked to feed baby Armani.
That's when his mood suddenly flipped and he "turned into someone else", she said.
As Friday night stretched into Saturday morning, Delacruz tried to console Tello while she and her little boy were in his bedroom - but he remained eerily silent.
That's when Delacruz said he stood up and stared at himself in the mirror for a moment, looking emotionless before pulled a gun on her and her little boy.
"And he's looking at my baby, and I'm telling him, 'You're not going to shoot my baby.'," she told the news station she said.
"But before I could push him away from me, the gun goes off. And then I'm deaf.
"And then I turn around and I see my son. My son is on the floor and he's turning blue."
Tello then shot his 49-year-old mother and his 14-year-old sister, police said.
Cops arrested him several blocks from his house after the shooting and hauled him off to Bexar County Jail, where he's being held on $500,000 bond.
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Tello's mother and sister are both expected to recover - but little Armani's future hangs in the balance.
Though the boy is hooked up to a ventilator, Delacruz won't give up to on her "miracle baby."
"They're telling me, 'Whenever you give us the okay, we'll take him off the ventilator,'" she said.
"I'm not going to do that anytime soon. I don't want to let go just yet."
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