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Shooting Victim Succumbs
posted (May 9, 2012)
As we told you on Monday, last weekend was very violent in the city, with six persons shot. None of them were fatally injured, but tonight, the news is that one of them has succumbed to his injuries.

29 year old Frank Vasquez was shot in the face, left shoulder and back on Neal Pen Road as he walked his dog on Saturday night.

He was listed in a stable condition at the KHMH, but his condition suddenly deteriorated and he died at approximately 9 this morning.

The shooting happened on Neal Penn Road at around 10:15 on Saturday night - while Vasquez was reportedly walking his dogs.

And while there were rumors circulating that the shooting was caused by a rivalry between men from two different ends of Pen Road - over some construction work- his family told us today, that is not so.

They say no one was fighting over jobs - and add that he could have survived - if he had gotten better care...

Chelsey McKay - Sister of Deceased
"He was doing fine up until this morning. He was talking to us, and he was laughing. The only thing is that he was having pains in his chest, hands and foot. He wasn't moving because one of the bullets went close to the spine, so we weren't quite sure if he would be paralyzed. He was supposed to go into surgery from yesterday, but the machine was down at the hospital. To be honest, we really think that the hospital that killed my brother because he was complaining about the nurse - while he was complaining about the pain and the nurse was telling him to try to breathe on his own. She was on her phone. She wasn't paying him much attention. They weren't telling us anything about the surgery that he was supposed to take. He got shot in the face, in the shoulder, and in the side."

Monica Bodden
"Now, there are rumors saying that he was shot because of a job issues that the guys on Penn Road are having."

Chelsey McKay
"Well, we are not sure about that, but my brother wasn't working on any sidewalk."

Marion Ali - Love News
"Tell us how the incident occurred."

Chelsey McKay
"Well, he had just come in from work, and he went to buy dog chow for the dog. So he and the dog went out to buy, and 3 houses away, the gunman rode up behind him and fired shots."

Frank Vasquez was the father of 3 children.

Frank Vasquez has been in the news many times before - most notably when he turned crown witness and testified against the three men convicted of the murder of 67-year-old San Pedro resident Jairo Perez who was beaten to death with a crowbar in his house.

The conviction was later overturned by the Privy Council which found that he gave shaky testimony.

He was also shot in 2007.

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