Heartbreaking video captures desperate pleas from bystanders as NYC shooting victim lay dying in street: Keep breathing
A heartbreaking video captured a Bronx shooting victim’s last breaths as bystanders pleaded — ultimately in vain – for the bleeding man to cling to life. The footage obtained by The Post shows the final moments of the 38-year-old victim Victor Bautista’s life after he was shot in the chest following a dispute with another man near Trinity Avenue and East 149th Street in Melrose around 7:45 a.m.Tuesday.
“Breathe! Breathe,” a good Samaritan frantically begs in the clip as Bautista lies on the street groaning.He lifts Bautista by the shoulder to examine the gunshot wound. “It didn’t go through! It didn’t go through,” he shouts.
“I got you, I got you,” he says.“Breathe!”A chorus of bystanders shouts out, “Call 911!”The Samaritan resumes his efforts to keep Bautista from slipping away. “Open your eyes, bro! Oh my God! Get up,” he tells Bautista.But things quickly took a turn for the worse.
“It’s getting low, it’s getting low,” he says, panic growing in his voice.“His pulse is getting low, man.
He’s going, he’s going, man.This n—a’s going to die in my hands, man!”He starts trying to pump Bautista’s chest in a desperate bid to revive him, the footage shows.A woman approaches the dying man whom she calls DaDa and clutches his hand.“DaDa, squeeze my hand,” she says, clutching his limp hand. “Yo, yo, stay with us, bro,” the Samaritan shouts as he continues to pump his chest. Moments later, police arrive and take over life-saving measures. Bautista was later pronounced dead at Lincoln Hospital, police said.
A second video, security footage from a bodega, shows the moment the victim was struck by the fatal bullet.Bautista can be seen getting into an animated argument with a man leaning against a wall outside of a business.
He punches the man and the two wrestle, according to the video.Then the other man suddenly fires a gun at Bautista, striking him once in the chest, according to the clip.The shooter...