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VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Josefina Ibarra shares her daughter, 28-year-old Jackie Espinoza's resilience aft her ex-boyfriend tried to termination her.
The video supra is from an earlier communicative and volition beryllium updated.
"She's a fighter. God near her connected world for a purpose," Ibarra said.
On Tuesday evening, Dinuba constabulary responded to calls of a antheral holding a weapon to a woman's caput successful a location connected Gardenia and Primrose Avenues.
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Authorities revealed the suspect, 26-year-old Jesus Murillo, changeable Espinoza successful the thorax astatine slightest 2 times.
Espinoza was recovered extracurricular the home.
When officers arrived, they utilized a drone to participate the location and recovered Murillo dormant from a self-inflicted wound.
Espinoza was taken to Kaweah Health Medical Center successful Visalia, wherever she underwent surgery.
"She's doing better, they took her retired of the intensive attraction unit, convey God," Ibarra said.
The archetypal happening Espinoza did erstwhile she woke up was inquire astir her 2 kids, her 7-year-old lad and 3-year-old girl. Children she shares with Murillo.
Ibarra says the household is helping attraction for the 2 kids.
"We're going done a infinitesimal that is truly difficult. It's things that you don't deliberation would happen," Josefina Ibarra | Mother of victim
As Ibarra inactive tries to fig retired wherefore Murillo would privation to wounded her daughter, she says they're focused connected her betterment and the future.
"My program is to assistance my girl with thing that she needs assistance with. I'm going to beryllium determination with her. Our household is going to beryllium determination with her," Ibarra said.
It's a agelong roadworthy to betterment for Espinoza.
The household says doctors volition not region the bullets from Espinoza's assemblage due to the fact that it volition origin much damage.
If you'd similar to enactment Jackie's roadworthy to recovery, her household has acceptable up a GoFundMe page.
Family Services of Tulare County offers enactment to adults and families experiencing home unit successful Tulare County communities. If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize tin usage information, delight telephone the 24-hour hotline astatine 559-732-5941. Advocates are disposable to connection resources, shelter, and assistance information plan.
If you are the unfortunate of home abuse, oregon you cognize idiosyncratic who is, determination is assistance disposable 24/7. In Fresno County, telephone the Marjaree Mason Center astatine (559) 233-4357. In each different locations, telephone the National Domestic Violence Hotline astatine (800) 799-7233.
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