A Texas dad was gunned down while carrying his daughter’s birthday cake outside a Chuck E. Cheese.
Calogero Duenes, 24, had just arrived at the famous for-kids restaurant for his daughter’s 6th birthday Friday night. That is when a driver of a car in the parking lot fatally shot him, police confirmed.
Apparently, the car had gone down the wrong way down a parking lot aisle, and Duenes got into a verbal exchange with the driver before the shots rang out, the New York Post reported.
Luckily, Duenes’ two daughters, 3-year-old Marrlow and 6-year-old birthday girl Serina were inside the restaurant with their mother when the shooting took place.
“He ran in and he was screaming, ‘I got shot! I got shot!’ ” wife Amber Uresti told KTOU-TV. “And I ran out behind him, my daughters ran out behind me, they saw him laying on the floor.”
The victim was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. Humble police confirmed that they do have surveillance footage of the confrontation and believe the person who shot Duenes was driving a black Ford car.
“He had no weapons,” Uresti told KTRK-TV. “He was holding my daughter’s birthday cake. He had nothing on him. I don’t understand why.”
“My daughter has been crying,” she told the station. “She slept last night with her father’s shirt, crying until she fell asleep, and it breaks my heart. There’s nothing I can tell her. There’s no words to tell her other than, ‘Daddy is with you in your heart. He loves you.”
