PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. (WSVN) – Police have released new surveillance video showing a clear picture of the subject wanted for the murder of a Pembroke Park auto repair shop owner.
Officials are asking for the public’s help in identifying the subject while the victim’s wife has made a passionate plea.
The shop owner, 57-year-old Philip Antonino, was fatally shot outside of his own business during an altercation with a man, Sept. 22.
Antonino’s wife, Ana, spoke about her husband through tears. “He was a family man,” she said. “He was a husband, a wonderful husband. He was a father. He was everything to everybody. We just lost a very good human being.”
According to reports, Antonino saw the subject harassing an elderly man who was cutting grass near the auto repair shop. The subject told the elderly man he was going to shoot him because he didn’t stop mowing the grass when he was walking by.
Antonino stepped in and told the subject to back off. The subject then pulled out a gun and shot Antonino multiple times.
“Told the guy to leave the old man alone, and the guy got angry at him and shot him,” said one witness. “Put a gun [under] his shirt and walked. He didn’t flee, he walked away. He walked away like nothing happened.”
Antonino was transported to a local hospital where he died from his injuries.
The Broward Sheriff Office is now asking for the public’s help in identifying the subject, whose face can be seen in the newly-released surveillance video from a different business.
Antonino’s wife, Ana, is now begging for someone to come forward with information. “We have to get him off the streets because it’s going to happen to somebody else,” she said. “We cannot kill each other, we have to live in peace. It doesn’t matter [what] race, color, religion, it doesn’t matter.”
“We are all people of this earth. We have to live in peace,” Ana said. “We have to take these people who have violence in them out because somebody else will die.”
Detectives believe that the subject lives in the area of the shooting in Pembroke Park. Officials describe the subject as a male, 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches in height, in his mid-20s or early 30s.
“We don’t need the person to call in to be a witness that has to testify in court,” said BSO Detective Valerian Perez. “We already have our witnesses. What we need is someone to just give us a name. It’s a very tight-knit community where everybody just about knows everybody.”
A lot of people knew Antonino and his kind spirit. “It’s apparent that he is someone who is very generous with his time, and he’s going to be sorely missed,” Perez said.
Ana said she remembers the last time she saw him. “In the morning, he left home happy,” she said. “And we kissed and he went to work like he always did, and he never came back. It can happen to anybody.”
The victim’s friends and family said that it’s no surprise that he died helping someone because that’s how he lived his life.
If you have any information on the subject’s identity, call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible for a $3,000 reward.
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