He Shot A Thug To Defend His Family, And The Thug’s Family Is Speaking Out….

The devastated mother of the dead Popeyes robber questioned the motives of the man who killed her son.

Cynthia Ruiz, a widow, and a single mother said she collapsed when San Antonio police notified her the next day that her 19-year-old son, Andrew Herrera, had been shot and killed during an attempted robbery.

San Antonio Police Department told Ruiz that her teenage son had been shot and killed by an armed person the previous night. Apparently, Herrera had tried to rob a Popeyes Chicken restaurant on the 800 block of Southeast Military Drive when someone took out their gun and repeatedly shot the teen until he was dead.

“Did my son deserve to be punished? Yes, he did,” Ruiz said.

Police said Herrera, wearing a hoodie and a mask, entered the South Side restaurant with a gun and confronted a man and his family who were eating.

After the man told Herrera he had spent the money he had on their dinner, Herrera turned toward the counter and pointed the gun at one of the workers, who was running away.

That’s when the man, who had a concealed handgun license, fired several shots at Herrera.

A police spokesman later said, “Here in Texas, if you’re in fear of loss of life, loss of property, you have a right to defend yourself.”

Ruiz said she understands the man who shot her son was defending his family, but she asked, “Why shoot him four more times? Why did he shoot him five times?”

Although she knew that her boy had problems, she did not think the man had to murder him in the chicken joint. Why didn’t he just disable him and then let the police finish the job with handcuffs?

Herrera’s mother said she wants to see surveillance video, to see what happened, according to AWM:

Now the mother who has lost everything of value in her life wants to see the chicken joint’s surveillance footage. Did the armed man tell the truth, or had he gotten a kick out of shooting the frantic teenager in the back five times? Police have not been forthcoming with the victim’s mother. They have not even confirmed if surveillance footage of the murder exists.

Later, the second suspect in the robbery told her that “the gun wasn’t even loaded.” The man who was protecting his family could not have known that.

Ruiz explained that her son had mental health issues ever since he was young. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a child and schizophrenia in 2016. The combination was very challenging for him. And he stopped taking his medication three weeks before he was murdered.

The mother said that he had told her, “What is life? Being on medicine all the time and I’m sleeping? I’m missing life.”

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Sources: AWM, KSAT/Youtube