Antonio and Jovanni Hernández Pozos are shot outside a Burger King

Fidelia Pozos cries out for help after her children, Antonio and Jovanni Hernández Pozos, were shot.
The Hernández Pozos received several shots in Denver, Colorado, one died and the other is very badly wounded.
The Denver Police Department needs the help of the community to find out the motive for the attack.

The brothers Antonio Hernández Pozos and Jovanni Hernández Pozos were shot. Antonio died and Jovanni is very badly injured. Now their mother, Fidelia Pozos, is asking for help and answers in a crime that has shocked the Hispanic community in Denver, Colorado, as the attack is shrouded in mystery.

According to the report of the Denver Police Department (DPD), sent to MundoHispánico, brothers Antonio Hernández Pozos and Jovanni Hernández Pozos were standing next to the Burger King fast food restaurant on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, in the middle of a hot summer night.

The Hernández Pozos brothers are shot and one died

The Hernández Pozos brothers were parked at the intersection of East Colfax Avenue and Quebec Street, in the northeast of the Denver metropolitan area, when a person, allegedly in a car, approached the two brothers and without any conflict, he simply fired multiple shots at them.

At the intersection where the brothers Armando and Jovanni Hernández Pozos were shot, there are several food businesses that serve until late at night, so several diners and restaurant employees were surprised by the shooting and took cover until the shock passed.

Hermanos Hernández Pozos: An unexpected shooting

When shots stopped being heard, the people in the area where the shooting took place against the brothers Antonio Hernández Pozos and Jovanni Hernández Pozos came out to see what had happened and found the two victims. Several people then called the DPD emergency number to report the incident that shook the neighborhood.

The first DPD patrols to arrive at the crime scene found Antonio Hernández Pozos and Jovanni Hernández Pozos very badly injured and asked that paramedics from the Denver Fire Department (DFD, for its acronym in English), will transport the two to a hospital to be treated for their injuries.

Antonio Hernández Pozos dies in the hospital

However, on Wednesday, June 9, 2021, Antonio Hernández Pozos, 26, died in the hospital when doctors were still fighting to save his life in the intensive care room. His brother Jovanni Hernández Pozos remains in the hospital and due to the seriousness of his injuries, he has not been able to testify to the authorities.

The agents of the Homicide Division of the DPD, until the time of writing this story, have no clue about the attack on the Hernández Pozos brothers, since in the corner where the crime occurred, due to the shelter of the darkness of the night, none of the neighbors and merchants in the area saw anything.

What was the motive for the attack on the Hernández Pozos brothers?

Now the agents of the DPD Homicide Division ask the Hispanic community of Denver, in particular, and Colorado in general, if anyone knows the motive, identity and whereabouts of the person who attacked the brothers Antonio and Jovanni Hernández Pozos contact his office at 720.913.7867. All tracks will be kept anonymous.

Fidelia Pozos, the mother of the siblings who were shot, opened an account on the social network Go Fund Me under the name of Antonio and Jiovanni to ask for solidarity from the community, after the misfortune that fell for his family and now has put them in an economic predicament to face the expenses of a funeral and the hospital.

«Expenses are very hard for us as a family»

«Today I just want to inform my family and friends that tonight my two children, Jovanni and Antonio Hernández Pozos, had an accident,» explained the troubled mother when she claimed financial help and explained that her son «Antonio passed away and Jiovanni is very critical ( in critical condition) at the Denver Health Hospital ”, details the immigrant from Mexico.

Mrs. Fidelia Pozos assures that now they are facing “very hard expenses for us as a family, as you know my husband is not working for his health. Any help is welcome. We are also going to do food sales ”, explained the mother of the two brothers Hernández Pozos to explain the serious situation in which they find themselves after the attack.

Antonio Hernández Pozos struggled to bring up his daughters

The young Antonio Hernández Pozos was the father of two girls, who procreated in a relationship he had with a Hispanic woman. To support his daughter and his partner, the murdered young man made his living in the auto body repair and paint business, with which he was very excited to carve out a solid future.

The agents of the DPD’s Homicide Division have had busy days from Monday the 7th to Friday the 11th of June because, in addition to the death of Antonio Hernández Pozos, they have had to investigate at least four other killings by shooting and stabbing in one of the most violent weeks in the Denver, Colorado metropolitan area.

A violent week in Denver, Colorado

According to the corporation, on the early morning of Thursday, June 10, 2021, a man was stabbed at the intersection of 20th Street and Broadway and was rushed to a hospital, with what authorities described as serious injuries. The name of the wounded man was not released by the DPD.

While the corporation was dealing with that stabbing attack, other DPD agents had to move that same Thursday morning to the 10700 block of East Dartmouth Avenue, to cover a report of a person who had been shot and was on the street in very bad shape. wound. The victim was taken to a hospital in serious condition. In neither case have there been detainees.

Hermanos Hernández Pozos, victims of the pandemic of violence

On the afternoon of Thursday, June 10, 2021, residents of the Westwood neighborhood, in the western metropolitan area of Denver, called the emergency number to report a shooting in front of the house marked 3600 Morrison Road. The patrolmen who arrived at the scene of the incident found three people wounded by gunshots at the scene.

Given the seriousness of the injuries, the three were transported by DFD paramedics to a hospital in the area, where according to the agents of the DPD Homicide Division, one of them had already died due to his serious injuries. The corporation did not reveal the identity of the deceased today and only said that there is already a detainee in that case.

There are no detainees in the case of Hernández Pozos brothers

On Friday, June 11, 2021, shortly after 1:00 a.m., as in the case of the Hernández Pozos brothers, two men were shot when they were at the intersection of Park Avenue and Curtis Street by someone who he approached them and unleashed a hail of bullets.

DPD patrols who showed up at the scene found the two men badly injured and they were taken to a hospital. However, by Friday morning one of them had already died due to the severity of his injuries. As in the case of the Hernández Pozos brothers, there have been no detainees in that attack so far.

Almost 20 thousand people have already been shot dead

According to the nonprofit organization Gun Violence Archives, which fights to raise awareness about the dangers of the free sale of firearms, so far this year in the United States 19,436 people have been killed by gunshots so far in its statistics as of Friday, June 11 in the morning .

As in the case of the Hernández Pozos brothers, of those 19,436 people killed by gunshots, a total of 8,744 died from homicides and the rest 10,692 from suicides. The organization details that so far there have been 262 mass shootings which are classified when there are at least four fatalities.

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