WILTON MANORS, FLA. (WSVN) – Issues took a shocking and tragic flip for a Fort Lauderdale couple when a person was shot and killed on the again patio of his boyfriend’s dwelling shortly after the stroke of midnight on New 12 months’s Day, police mentioned.
Talking with 7News on Friday, Chris Dillon mentioned he wasn’t anticipating his boyfriend, Angel Nunes, to point out up simply earlier than 12 a.m. on Tuesday.
“At 11:58, I hear [beeping, someone typing in] my door code, and just one [other] particular person is aware of that code,” mentioned Dillon. “My coronary heart soared. I knew he would come again, however I didn’t know what time it was — 1 o’clock, 2 o’clock. I had no thought.”
Dillon mentioned Nunes informed him he wished to verify he wasn’t alongside when the clock struck 12.
“He goes, ‘And I used to be not going to depart you alone for that New 12 months’s kiss,” mentioned Dillon as he fought again tears.
The couple headed to the again patio of Dillon’s dwelling and shared that first kiss of 2025.
“Man, if I didn’t love this man earlier than, I positive love him 1735952009. What a candy child. He was at all times a candy man,” mentioned Dillon.
However then, Dillon mentioned, he noticed a flas, and Nunes fell to the bottom. For a break up second, he thought possibly he’d been hit with a bit of a firework.
“And I bent down, ‘Angel, Angel, Angel, what’s happening?’ You already know, slapping him a bit of bit, hugging him, kissing him, I used to be like, ‘Hey, come on, come on, come on,’ shaking him,” he mentioned. “I believed possibly like a rocket had rushed him, scared him, he handed out. I don’t know.”
It was no firework, however a bullet that had pierced Nunes’ facet. He didn’t survive.
As of Friday evening, Fort Lauderdlae Police mentioned they have no idea the place the bullet got here from. One concept is that it was a stray fired in celebration.
“I don’t perceive this cultural factor that you simply suppose it’s enjoyable to shoot a gun up within the air and scream, ‘All people get out of the way in which,’ or no matter they do. I don’t know,” mentioned Dillon.
Dillon has recognized loss earlier than. He misplaced a husband and a sister, and now, on the daybreak of 2025, he’s grappling with this mindless loss.
“[Angel] is probably the kindest particular person I’ve ever recognized, and he liked serving to folks,” he mentioned. “It’s mind-boggling, it’s so uncalled for, as a result of [celebratory gunfire] killed a 10-year-old and killed my boyfriend.”
Nunes was 50 years previous. He leaves behind two grownup daughters.
Dillon mentioned his boyfriend was so near his mom, that proper when he fell, his mom was calling him to want him a Completely happy New 12 months.
In case you have any data on this capturing, name Fort Lauderdale Police at 954-828-5700 or Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS. Bear in mind, you possibly can at all times stay nameless, and you might be eligible for a reward of as much as $5,000.
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