Nestor Hernandez: Hospital shooter’s ex-girlfriend speaks to WFAA

On Oct. 21, 2022, at Methodist Hospital, Selena Villatoro gave beginning to a child boy. The child’s father, Nestor Hernandez, was there. 

“When my water broke, he’s the one which took me over there and he stayed,” mentioned Villatoro.

At the time, Hernandez was on parole for aggravated theft and was sporting an ankle monitor. 

He initially wasn’t supposed to be on the hospital however acquired permission from his parole officer to go to Villatoro and his new child son the subsequent day.

Villatoro mentioned he texted earlier than he left the home round 7 within the morning. 

“He was texting good at first. Like when he awakened. He was, like, asking me how’s the newborn,” mentioned Villatoro.

Villatoro says he didn’t present up till simply earlier than 11 a.m. and appeared to be drunk. Surveillance video of him contained in the hospital confirmed him holding a beer.

“I seen he was mad, you know because he had a beer in his hand. Like, who would come into the hospital with a beer?” mentioned Villatoro.

She mentioned he appeared drunk. Villatoro mentioned he started calling his kinfolk. 

“He called them like to tell them goodbye. Like ‘I love you.’ Like ‘y’all be good and stay safe.’ He was saying his goodbyes.”

She mentioned he would get imply and jealous when he was drunk. He started accusing her of getting one other man within the room earlier than he acquired there. 

”He mentioned ‘you bought me tousled’ and he’s like, ‘I’m not dumb. I informed you to cease enjoying with me.’ He’s like, ‘we’re going to die in the present day.’” 

Villatoro mentioned she was holding the newborn in her arms, terrified he would kill them and anybody who walked by the door. 

“He was like, ‘press the button, press the button’ and I was like, ‘no, you are trippin” and I had the baby… He hit me on this side of the head and I thought he was going to hit the baby and he just kept hitting me,” mentioned Villatoro.

She mentioned that’s when Jacqueline Pokuaa, a hospital caretaker, walked in. 

“She got here in and she or he had some papers. He acquired up and he went round her and he simply shot her and I used to be, like, making an attempt to make eyes along with her, taking a look at her making an attempt. I don’t even know what I used to be making an attempt to do. He shot her and that’s when all of it occurred,” mentioned Villatoro. 

Surveillance video launched from the hospital exhibits what occurs subsequent.

Police mentioned Hernandez walked to the door and shot nurse Annette Flowers.  

A Methodist police officer, Sgt. Robert Rangel, fired his weapon taking pictures Hernandez within the leg. 

“I’ve a person with a gun,” Rangel mentioned. 

Villatoro mentioned that is when Hernandez got here again into the room and reloaded. 

“He went into his again pocket. It was like somewhat field of bullets and he began reloading and he saved saying ‘you see, you thought this was a sport. We are going to die in the present day, get pleasure from your time together with your child’ like we’re going to die.” 

Villatoro mentioned terrified, she tried to calm Hernandez down, who now had the gun pointed at her. 

“He had the gun and he was pointing like he was going to kill me and kill himself,” she mentioned. 

Officers referred to as for Hernandez to give up however Villatoro thought they had been additionally speaking to her.  

“I didn’t want to leave my baby. I just didn’t want to leave my baby. I didn’t want to die and I didn’t want to die in front of my baby,” mentioned Villatoro.

In the video, you’ll be able to hear Villatoro screaming and begging for officers not to shoot Hernandez.   

“Listen to me, please let him outside. Please that’s all I’m asking.” 

She mentioned she was making an attempt to persuade Hernandez to give up however he saved hitting her whereas she held the newborn. 

“He was so close and he could have hit him and he could have died and it was crazy. I don’t know why he did it and I kept asking him ‘why did you do this? What was the reason?'” mentioned Villatoro. 

Villatoro mentioned finally, Hernandez, who was shot, fell over and dropped the gun. 

“I jumped up and acquired the gun. The officers had been speaking to us and telling him to come exterior and I’m like ‘I acquired the gun. I’m going to throw it exterior,’ and I simply threw the gun,” mentioned Villatoro. 

Dallas Police officers, who had been referred to as in to help, took Hernandez into custody.  

Villatoro mentioned pondering again on that day has been troublesome, particularly understanding two harmless ladies misplaced their lives.  

“I just want to tell them, I am sorry for their loss,” she mentioned. 

Villatoro mentioned she has a number of regrets, like staying with Hernandez after the each of them went to jail on the similar time for robbing a girl in 2015. 

She mentioned after they had been each launched, she went again to him despite the fact that she knew he was controlling, offended and drank an excessive amount of. 

“I ought to have left him once I seen he was getting uncontrolled along with his consuming,” mentioned Villatoro. 

Villatoro mentioned she has not spoken to him since that tragic day and has no want to ever discuss to him once more.   

Instead, she is making an attempt to deal with getting her son again. 

Child Protective Services took the newborn and positioned him in foster care. Villatoro mentioned she does get to see him each day however hates she will’t take of him or purchase him the issues he wants. 

Villatoro mentioned she by no means imagined Hernandez would do one thing like this and mentioned she needs she may have stopped him. 

Hernandez was indicted on capital homicide prices in December for the deaths of Pokuaa and Flowers. 

Controversy has surrounded Hernandez’s case, due to him being out on parole for a violent aggravated theft. Hernandez had minimize off his ankle monitor earlier in 2022, violating his parole situations for a second time. He was launched after spending 100 days in custody on the order of the state parole board, legislation enforcement sources informed WFAA. 

Hernandez had six ankle monitor violations, in accordance to a report from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and Board of Pardons & Paroles. 

Top political leaders, together with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, have referred to as for investigations into the state’s parolee monitoring program. 

When WFAA investigated the effectiveness of ankle displays in parole, we discovered that Hernandez did not have a GPS monitor, however as a substitute, a curfew monitor. 

“I’ve said it before ankle monitors do not work on violent criminals,” Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia mentioned to WFAA. “They do not work.”

State Representative Rafael Anchia mentioned he plans to introduce a invoice into the legislative session that might criminalize slicing off an ankle monitor and revoke an individual’s parole once they minimize off their monitor. 

Hernandez is at the moment within the Dallas County jail in lieu of a $3 million bond. 

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