Dad Shot and Killed While Carrying Daughter’s Birthday Cake Outside of Chuck E. Cheese

A young Texas’s father’s life was tragically cut short Friday after he was fatally shot in the parking lot of a Chuck E. Cheese’s, where he and his family were celebrating his daughter’s sixth birthday.  Calogero Duenes, 24, and his wife and two daughters, ages 6 and 3, had just arrived at the restaurant when the incident occurred. His family had recently gone inside. According to KTRK-TV, the shooter was caught on a surveillance camera driving the wrong way and nearly hitting Duenes. A verbal altercation ensued, then gunfire. The shooter fled the scene in his vehicle before Duenes was taken to a hospital, where he died of his injuries.  No arrests have been made, and a suspect has not yet been identified. “I saw him,” Duenes’ wife Amber Uresti  told KTRK. “I saw him walking towards us. I told the lady my husband was on his way. I pointed at him, and the instant I turned around, he came running in through the door and he kept saying, ‘I got shot! I got shot!’” Uresti says that her husband was holding their little girl’s birthday cake when he was shot.  “It’s a tragedy,” Uresti told KPRC-TV. “I really can’t wrap my head around it. Like, I’m hurt. I can’t understand how someone can do that to someone that’s holding a cake. We just went to go celebrate my daughter’s sixth birthday. I mean, that’s all he was tasked with. That’s all he had on him was a cake.” “My daughter has been crying,” Uresti added to KTRK. “She slept last night with her father’s shirt, crying until she fell asleep, and it breaks my heart. There’s nothing I can tell her. There’s no words to tell her other than, ‘Daddy is with you in your heart. He loves you.’” A GoFundMe page has been set up to help pay for funeral expenses. As of Thursday afternoon, the fund has already raised more than double its goal of 20,000. The post Dad Shot and Killed While Carrying Daughter’s Birthday Cake Outside of Chuck E. Cheese appeared first on WomenWorking.