Fernando Noyola, a father of six,<\/a> during a confrontation outside a home on Taylor Avenue. Cellphone video obtained by News 12 captures the moment shots were fired.<\/p>\nNoyola previously told News 12 he was defending his family when he was shot and said Vazquez became aggressive during a child custody exchange involving the victim\u2019s sister-in-law.<\/p>\n
Vazquez\u2019s father disputed that account, saying his son never approached the home.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe never took a step toward that house. He was in the street,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Family members claim the video does not show the full encounter and allege others off-camera were threatening Vazquez. His stepmother, Jecenia Rivera, said tensions had been building before the shooting.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe kept making threats over the phone, saying what would happen to him if he came back around to drop off the little girl,\u201d Rivera said.<\/p>\n
However, text messages reviewed by News 12 suggest Vazquez may have anticipated violence. In one message, he wrote, \u201cI\u2019ll smack one of them\u2026 I\u2019ll come back and clap at one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
His family said the messages were taken out of context.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s thinking it\u2019s just a regular argument. I know it looks bad on my son, but that is not who he is. He is a great father,\u201d his father said.<\/p>\n
Vazquez turned himself in to the police Monday and pleaded not guilty to a slew of charges, including attempted manslaughter and reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an exclusive interview with News 12, the parents of 28-year-old Sergio Vazquez said their son is being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,1096,11650,3980,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-175492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-shooting","tag-shooting-victims","tag-shootings","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\/175492","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=175492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}