6/28/2014
A steel rod and a knuckle from a cadaver have been placed in Yazmin Reyes' right hand.
Gunfire shattered it.
Blood from the injury stained the then 21-year-old's shoes red.
Adrian Reyes still remembers the day his daughter nearly died.
"She heard him calling her name," he recalled. "So when she looked back and turned around he started to shoot at her."
27-year-old Victor Hernandez is the one with a gun, according to Adrian.
He says the ex-boyfriend waited for Yazmin to come home from work, followed her to the door and opened fire.
Adrian says security cameras at his Brownsville home recorded exactly what happened onto a hard drive.
The evidence would later be used to convict Hernandez in court.
The suspect spent nearly a year as a fugitive in Mexico before turning himself in to police last July.
Adrian says he’ll never forget the cold-hearted, cowardly-nature in which Hernandez opened fire on his daughter.
"She tried to run," he told Action 4’s Ryan Wolf. "So she turned back to run into the house. He kept shooting. My daughter fell to the floor and she was halfway standing and he kept shooting until he had no more bullets."
That happened back in May of 2012 along Keith Lane.
Yazmin was shot 6 times.
"3 in her abdomen," Adrian said. "She lost a kidney and also part of her intestine. Some bullets went through her arm, her right arm. There's a plate to hold the bone. And a bullet also went through her hand and blew up her knuckle."
Her father says she still isn't ready to publicly speak out.
The family relocated shortly after the crime.
He hopes Hernandez's 50 year sentenced handed down on Friday will help Yazmin’s emotional scars to heal.
"We know that he isn't going to be a threat anymore for her," he said.
Justice has been served.
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