Shot multiple times, a 49-year-old South Florida man begged a 911 operator to send help to his Weston home and to come find him in his bedroom before it was too late.
“Ahh. Ahh. I’ve been shot. I’ve been shot … I’m going to die. I’m going to die. I can’t feel my legs. Oh my God. Oh my God. I think I am going to die,” Alan Orozco says in a 911 call released Tuesday. “Call my mother. Oh my God, call my son. God forgive me for what I’ve done.”
Orozoco had been fighting with his girlfriend, Mariana Del Carmen Prieto on Jan. 2 in a three-bedroom, two-bath home in the 1000 block of a roadway called Spyglass, within a gated community, according to Broward property records.
By the time the shooting was over, he was seriously injured. She was dead.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office has not said if each of them had a gun or if it was a single gun that injured Orozco and killed Prieto, 23.
She had arrived in the U.S. from Venezuela a month earlier so she could plan her wedding to Orozco.
Prieto had been in touch with her mother just prior to the shooting. Her mother asked her if Orozco was treating her well and she said no, her mother, Mayra Cardoso, told Telemundo.
“I ask God to help Alan recover … and that God gives him health,” Cardoso told Telemundo. “Whatever happened, I’m praying for him.”
The case is still under investigation. It has not been presented to the Broward State Attorney’s Office for review.
According to Orozco’s Facebook page, he is a real estate agent and is originally from Venezuela.
He prays into the phone and at one point he tells the dispatcher he sees a white light.
“God, I’m ready. I’m ready to die,” Orozco says. “I’m ready, God, if you want to take me —take me God. God, I love you, God. God, I love you, God.”
The emergency dispatcher urges him to stay on the line until help comes.
Orozco was taken to Broward Health Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. His condition was unavailable Tuesday.
Details about Prieto’s death have not been made public yet.
Eileen Kelley can be reached at 954-356-4543 or [email protected]