2007 FROM CLERMONT HAS BEEN REUNIT WEDITH HER MOTHER. JIM: JACQUELINE HERNANDEZ WAS ABDUCTED WHEN SHE WAS STJU SIX YEARS OLD BUT RECENTLY, SHE REACHED OUT TO HER MOTHER ON SOCIAL MEDIA, SAYING SHE WAS IN MEXICO. THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE TWO OF THEM TOGETHER. FEDERAL AGENCIES HELPED THE NOW 19-YEAR-OLD HERNANDEZ GET OUT OF MEXICO AND ALSO NFCOIRMED HER IDENTITY. THE SEARCH FOR HER ABDUCTOR IS ONGOING. MICHELLE: NEW TONIGHT, SEEKING JUSTICE. A LOCAL MAN WAS SHOT EARLIER THIS MONTH IN ORANGE COUNTY TRYING TO BREAK UP A FIGHT. IT HAPPENED DURING A GENDER REVEAL PARTY. JIM: WESH 2’S GAIL PASCHALL-BROWN SPOKE TO THE MAN’S WIFE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM HIS INJURIES AND THE SEARCH FOR THE PERSON WHO SHOT M.HI >> I DON’T KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO WAKE UP WITHOUT HIM AND I HAVE FOR THE LAST 8 DAYS. I MISS HOLDING HIS HANDS. GAIL: SELENE COLON’S HUSBDAN JOEY AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS BIG JOE IS RECOVERING IN THE HOSPIT AALFTER HE WAS SHOT SEPTEMBER 5 ON VALENCIA PALMS DRIVE IN ORANGE COUNTY. COLON WAS AT HIS BROTHER’S HOUSE WHEN A FIGHT BROKE OUT DURING HIS NEPHEW’S GENDER REVEAL PARTY. >> FIGHT BKERO OUT AND MY HUSBAND WENT TO STOP THE FHTIG AND THEN AFTER, WHILE HE WAS STOPPING THE FIGHT, SOMEONE CAME OUT OF A CAR AND JUST SHOT INTO THE CROWD AND MY HUSBAND WAS HIT. GAIL: THE ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS THE GUNMAN FIRED SEVERAL ROUNDS AND FLEIND A CAR. COLON’S SON, AN ICU NURSE, SAW HIS DAD GO DOWN. >> AND HE PULLED HIM OUT A HNDE STARTED TO COMPRESS THE WOUNDS, STARTED TELLING EVERYONE WHAT TO DO. GAIL: THE FAMILY DROVE JOEY COLON TO ADVENTHEALTH EAST ORLANDO. >> IT’S THE HARDEST THING IN MY LI.FE I’VE BEEN WITH HIM SINCE I’M 15 YEARS OLD. SO 35 YEARS WE’VE BEEN TOGEERTH AND I DON’T KNOW LIFE WITHOUT HIM. GAIL: COLON WAS TRANSPORTED TO ORLANDO REGIONAL MEDICAL CENR.TE >> HE’S AN AMAZING, AMAZIN FATHER, AMAZING HUSBAND, BROTHER, EMPLOYEE, EVERYONE LOVES HIM. GAIL: SHE SAYS HER HUSBAND REMAINS IN CRITICAL CONDITION WITH INJURIES TO HIS KIDNEY, PANCREAS, AND INTESTINES. >> HE’S STRUGGLING, HE’S SUFFERING. HE’S IN A LOT OF PAIN. HE’S ON VENTILATOR. HE LOST HIS SPLEEN. GAIL: SO FAR, NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE. AND THE FAMILY IS JUST HOP
Family looks for justice after father shot while breaking up fight at nephew's gender reveal
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Updated: 6:25 AM EDT Sep 14, 2021
“I don't know what it's like to wake up without him and I have for the last 8 days. I miss holding his hands,” Selene Colon told WESH 2 News.Colon's husband Joey, affectionately known as "Big Joe," is recovering in the hospital after he was shot Sept. 5 on Valencia Palms Drive in Orange County.Colon was at his brother's house when a fight broke out during his nephew's gender reveal party."A fight broke out and my husband went to stop the fight and then after, while he was stopping the fight, someone came out of a car and just shot into the crowd and my husband was hit,” Colon said.The Orange County Sheriff's Office said the gunman fired several rounds and fled in a car. Colon's son, an ICU nurse, saw his dad go down.“He pulled him out and he started to compress the wounds, started telling everyone what to do,” Colon said.The family drove the family patriarch to AdventHealth East Orlando. "It's the hardest thing in my life. I've been with him since I'm 15 years old, so 35 years we've been together and I don't know life without him,” Colon said.Joey Colon was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center."He's an amazing, amazing father. Amazing husband brother, employee, everyone loves him,” Colon said.She says her husband remains in critical condition with injuries to his kidney, pancreas and intestines.“He's struggling, he's suffering. He's in a lot of pain. He's on a ventilator. He lost his spleen,” Colon said.No arrests have been made and the family is just hoping for justice."If you know something, say something. Don't hold back because this could be your family member, someone you love,” Colon said.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — “I don't know what it's like to wake up without him and I have for the last 8 days. I miss holding his hands,” Selene Colon told WESH 2 News.
Colon's husband Joey, affectionately known as "Big Joe," is recovering in the hospital after he was shot Sept. 5 on Valencia Palms Drive in Orange County.
Colon was at his brother's house when a fight broke out during his nephew's gender reveal party.
"A fight broke out and my husband went to stop the fight and then after, while he was stopping the fight, someone came out of a car and just shot into the crowd and my husband was hit,” Colon said.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office said the gunman fired several rounds and fled in a car.
Colon's son, an ICU nurse, saw his dad go down.
“He pulled him out and he started to compress the wounds, started telling everyone what to do,” Colon said.
The family drove the family patriarch to AdventHealth East Orlando.
"It's the hardest thing in my life. I've been with him since I'm 15 years old, so 35 years we've been together and I don't know life without him,” Colon said.
Joey Colon was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center.
"He's an amazing, amazing father. Amazing husband brother, employee, everyone loves him,” Colon said.
She says her husband remains in critical condition with injuries to his kidney, pancreas and intestines.
“He's struggling, he's suffering. He's in a lot of pain. He's on a ventilator. He lost his spleen,” Colon said.
No arrests have been made and the family is just hoping for justice.
"If you know something, say something. Don't hold back because this could be your family member, someone you love,” Colon said.
