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A Colorado woman is shot in the leg while doing ZUMBA CLASS by a criminal who was shooting at a different target but missed
- Adriana Lavin recovers after being shot in the leg during a Zumba class
- Diego Sánchez, 37, turned himself in on Saturday and faces multiple charges
- Police say Sanchez fired multiple rounds at a vehicle but hit Lavin in the studio.
A Colorado woman was shot in the leg during her Zumba class when a man firing a gun across the street missed her target and struck her.
Adriana Lavin said she was working out at the Zumba gym Wednesday when shots went through her front window and she dropped to the ground to avoid being hit. he remembered KDVR from his hospital bed.
But they had shot him in the leg. “When I wanted to, I couldn’t, because I fell,” Lavin said. He was bleeding from his legs.
Jefferson County Sheriff’s investigators said Diego Sanchez, 36, was shooting at a car but instead hit the studio at 59th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard in Arvada, Colorado, where Lavin was exercising.
Sanchez, who turned himself in Saturday, faces multiple charges including first-degree criminal attempted murder, first-degree assault, unlawful possession of a firearm and multiple counts of criminal mischief.
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Adriana Lavin said she was working out at the Zumba gym in Arvada, Colorado, on Wednesday when she was shot in the leg, she recalled from her hospital bed.
Diego Sanchez, 36, was shooting at a car but instead hit the studio at 59th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard in Arvada, Colorado, where Lavin was working out, the sheriff’s office said.
Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the 5300 block of Sheridan Boulevard Wednesday around 10:30 a.m. for reports of gunshots.
Jefferson County Sheriff’s investigators said Sanchez was allegedly firing a weapon at a specific vehicle and fired multiple rounds, when he threw Lavin out of the window of a Zumba fitness studio at the Berkeley Village shopping center.
Sanchez allegedly fired at the vehicle at the Sheridan Estates mobile home park across the street from the mall, a vehicle that investigators believe was the target.
Stray bullets hit another car turning into the mall and went through the gym window, causing everyone to fall to the ground.
“Everybody’s reaction was to hit the ground,” Lavin said from his hospital bed. “My reaction was to grab a boy who was in my club.”
Two bullet holes could be seen in the gym window.
Responding officers placed a tourniquet on Lavin’s leg and transported her to the hospital where she is recovering.
“They put a tourniquet on my legs so I wouldn’t keep bleeding, because I was bleeding a lot,” Lavin said.
Investigators said Sanchez was allegedly firing a weapon at a specific vehicle when he impaled Lavin through the window of a Zumba Fitness studio in the Berkeley Village shopping center.
Investigators said they found bullet holes in the walls and windows of several businesses.
Investigators said they found bullet holes in the walls and windows of several businesses in the Berkeley Village shopping center.
Lavin is recovering in the hospital with his family by his side.
“I can’t operate on it because the bullet landed very close to a major artery and it can’t be removed without causing more damage,” Lavin said.
Her brother, Abraham, said the family is grateful that she is okay.
“It was very difficult not to know what was going on with my sister,” Abraham said, “and I mean honestly, it’s something I wouldn’t wish on anybody, to put them through that.”
Lavin was in good spirits as he recovered from being shot in the leg earlier this week.
Lavin’s brother, Abraham, said the family is glad she is okay, but said it was hard not to know what was going on with her sister during that tense time Wednesday.