Mother of 2 children in recovery after being shot by the father of her children

PHOENIX – A 25-year-old mother is recovering as best she can after being shot twice by her ex-boyfriend. She now has no job and no home.

“I have glass on my arm, from my elbow to my upper shoulder,” says Angelique Herrera.

Herrera was at home with her boyfriend and her two children when she says her ex, 28, is Luis Alonso López Gutierreztried to break in.

“I told my friend that there was someone there and who it was because I had previous incidents two weeks before where I had to call the police,” she said.

Angelique says he tried to break the front and back windows. At that moment, she ran to her car with her boyfriend.

Phoenix police say Gutierrez shot at her car as she drove away.

“I didn’t know it was a gun until I saw his arm and it was bleeding, but I was already driving and I took off. I didn’t even know I was being shot either. I just felt a lot of pressure in my stomach,” said them.

Herrera was shot twice in the abdomen and her boyfriend in the arm. While she was driving, she called the Phoenix Police Department, whose stop was near 29th Ave and McDowell, and they were both rushed to the hospital.

“For him to do this to her, the mother of his children, while his children are there, it’s just mind-boggling. I couldn’t believe it,” said Rubi Lopez, Herrera’s boyfriend.

Court documents show Gutierrez fled DPS on I-10 toward Tucson. He was later arrested in Marana after DPS applied spike strips to his car.

It is not the first time he has come into contact with the police.

Court records show that Gutierrez was released from jail on Oct. 21 and that he is not a U.S. citizen, which means he cannot legally possess a firearm.

“Since he got out, I felt like something bad was going to happen because he still wouldn’t leave me alone even when he was in jail,” Herrera said.

Angelique says Gutierrez called her from jail hours later after his arrest.

When Angelique came home from the hospital, she discovered that she no longer had a place to live.

“Honestly, it’s very difficult to recover because the house I lived in – I had to move immediately because it was his sister’s house. She was the owner and she wanted us to leave, so that was my first day out, so I had a lot of people come and help me pack and move my stuff,” she said.

She is now focusing on the recovery and safety of her two children.

“I’m afraid he will come back and kill me,” she says. Angelique and her two children are temporarily living with a friend.

Herrera can no longer work while she recovers.

A GoFundMe has been set up for them.