More than a week after 43-year-old Fernando Noyola was shot and seriously injured, the Parkchester man is sharing what loved ones called his heroic story, exclusively with news 12 through Zoom.<\/p>\n
Noyola said the brawl began on Taylor Avenue March 5 when the gunman, who he identified as his sister-in-law’s ex-boyfriend, became aggressive during a child exchange. He stepped in when he noticed the suspect had a gun.<\/p>\n
Police say Noyola was shot three times in the stomach that afternoon. Doctors had to place the father of six under a medically induced coma, operating on him three separate times to keep him alive.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know if anyone would do what I did,” Noyola said. “but I would do it over and over again. Anytime.”<\/p>\n
Noyola heard the gunfire, but the adrenaline masked the pain of the bullet striking him in the stomach. He knew he was hit, but had to keep pushing.<\/p>\n
“Something in my heart said don’t stop, because if I stopped, he would have continued,” he said. “Whatever inch of power I had in me, I didn’t stop.”<\/p>\n
His son watched in horror as his shirt began to soak in blood. The gunman drove off, but the race to keep Fernando breathing only just began.<\/p>\n
“I heard my son screaming, ‘Dad you’ve been shot.’ I said, ‘Get inside,'” he said.<\/p>\n
He collapsed in his son’s arms.<\/p>\n
“He said, ‘Dad, you gonna be OK.’And I’m OK,” he said.<\/p>\n
Noyola is still recovering in the hospital but says the second he gets out, he’s running toward family.<\/p>\n
“I’m gonna give all my kids a hug and kiss,” he said with a smile. “I miss them all. And while I’m here, they’re out there. I just want to make sure it don\u2019t, it don\u2019t happen again.”<\/p>\n
The NYPD says it is still looking for the person who pulled the trigger. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a week after 43-year-old Fernando Noyola was shot and seriously injured, the Parkchester man is sharing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,68,3663,9,24,63,103,7437,1096,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-161997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-exclusive","tag-hospital","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-parkchester","tag-shooting","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}