Stay classy, NYC!<\/p>\n
The hero Bronx dad who was wounded<\/a>\u00a0as he shielded his three small children from gunfire at a Bronx car dealership this week lost his jobs because of the injury \u2014 according to a fundraising page that surpassed $100,000 on Friday.<\/p>\n
Anthony Jefferson, 39, visited the used-car business on Boston Road in Eastchester around 7:30 p.m. Monday to look for a car to surprise the mother of his kids, Danica Jefferson, on her upcoming birthday.<\/p>\n
Instead of leaving with a car, Jefferson found himself in the midst of a shootout \u2014 and was shot himself as he covered his children with his body to protect them from the bullets.<\/p>\n
\u201cDue to his injury, Anthony lost his job and has to have surgery to remove the bullet,\u201d Serena Wingate, a close friend of Jefferson, posted on a GoFundMe page that hit $122,084 on Friday afternoon. The page\u2019s goal was $24,100.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis Go Fund me is to help this heroic dad with his medical bills and his kids with therapy. They are beyond traumatized.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anthony lost both of his jobs \u2014 one as a head painter at a maintenance company and another as a construction worker, Danica Jefferson\u00a0told TMZ<\/a>, declining to name the companies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sad if true. I find it hard to believe that a man would get summarily fired for protecting his kids and literally taking a bullet for them. If his injury is prohibiting his ability to work, he would have been covered by the Family and Medical Leave Act (if he’d worked there at least a year).<\/p>\n
I feel like there’s a lot more to this story. We’ve seen too many crowdfunding scams to immediately believe everything we read on the Internets.<\/p>\n
Source; New York Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"