Newly released footage shows Florida man David Contreras using his home doorbell camera to confess to his wife that he shot and killed their son during a heated argument. Contreras, 52, was caught on camera allegedly confessing to shooting and killing his 22-year-old son Eric at their Miami residence last November. Moments after the shooting on November 3, Contreras can be heard telling his wife, “He’s not breathing. He’s dead,” the New York Post reports. “The fighting on the way home was unbearable.”
Tells wife it’s not your fault
In one scene in the footage, Contreras is seen lying face down on the ground, overwhelmed by distress. He was repeatedly protecting his pained face with his hands. “It’s not your fault. Please call my brother,” he pleaded with his wife. In the footage his wife can be heard crying, saying, “He will go to jail.” Contreras also called 911 after talking to his wife, telling her, “I just shot my son.” When police arrived at Contreras’ home, they found Eric, a Florida International University student, dead from a gunshot wound, the New York Post reported. Contreras was then taken into custody.