José Ervin, Jr. and his wife Scierra made the news in August last year after they welcomed their twin children. The couple, who share the same birthday, welcomed their twin children on their birthday.
But tragedy hit the Ohio family on October 4 as Ervin was fatally shot during an altercation with another man. Per ABC5, the incident occurred at a gas station on Turney Road. Prior to the shooting, Ervin and a group of friends had left a neighborhood bar and were getting food and drinks.
Obtained footage from the gas station later showed Ervin and another man arguing before it became physical. But after the fight broke up, the footage showed the other man drawing a gun and pursuing Ervin. The gunman shot Ervin multiple times before driving away with two women.
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Ervin succumbed to his injuries in a hospital. “My son was begging, my son was saying, ‘don’t do this, don’t kill me, man,’ and he did it anyway. They did it anyway,” Ervin’s mother, Rhonda Ervin, said, adding that her deceased son was popular in the community.
“He used to go to the police station just to hang out with them, and they knew him very well. One person that knew him very well, that broke down crying in my arms, Detective Patrick from Garfield Heights police station. He said, as soon as he saw him, he knew who he was, and they tried to save him,” Rhonda recalled.
Ervin’s wife Scierra is pregnant with their third child after they welcomed their twin children last August. “We just got married in June,” Scierra told ABC5. “We didn’t even get to be married for six months. This is real life. They don’t have a right to steal a life. We are not God. We don’t have that right.”
Ervin’s family is also entreating the gunman to turn himself in. “I just want to tell the guy, whoever you is, we know who you is, to ‘turn yourself in.’ You see what you done to my family,'” the deceased man’s father, Jose Ervin Sr., said.
“He’s got twins here, a boy and a girl. They need their daddy now,” he added. “We got to step up and raise our grandkids. You took a good man away.”
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