Bronx dad and former amateur boxer with 2-month-old son shot dead outside NYC elementary school

A 34-year-old Bronx dada who conscionable welcomed a babe boy and spent overmuch of his younker successful nan ringing arsenic a promising amateur boxer was gunned down extracurricular an simple schoolhouse precocious Tuesday, cops said. 

Carlos Teron — who started boxing astatine only 9 years aged and yet made his measurement to an elite amateur tourney — was changeable successful nan caput minutes earlier 11 p.m. connected Clinton Avenue adjacent East 178th Street successful West Farms, extracurricular P.S. 595 – The Colibrí Community School, according to constabulary and his brother. 

Teron, who was joined pinch a 2-month-old son, Cairo, was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, wherever he clung to life earlier succumbing to his injuries. 

His older brother, Jorge Teron, 39, a erstwhile master boxer now based successful Las Vegas, told The Post he was successful furniture erstwhile Carlos’ woman called his ain woman pinch nan shattering news. 

“I said, ‘What’s going on?’ and she yet told maine what happened, and I started screaming,” Jorge said successful a Wednesday day telephone interview. “It’s thing nary 1 ever expected — nary telephone for illustration that.

“He had a 2-month-old babe boy astatine home,” a choked-up Jorge added. “Things were looking up for him. He conscionable sewage a caller car. He was working, he conscionable sewage a caller flat and car. Things were really looking bully for him, and he was excited.”

Jorge — a erstwhile NABO Lightweight champion who competed from 2005 to 2011 — said his relative followed successful his footsteps but was a beardown boxer successful his ain right. 

Carlos’ boxing profession spanned from 2004 to 2008, and he took portion successful nan acclaimed New York Daily News Golden Gloves tournament.

“He had complete 100 amateur fights,” his relative said. “He was a very bully amateur boxer. He followed successful my steps successful that regard. When we were increasing up, anytime you saw me, you saw him.” 

“He wanted to beryllium a boxer conscionable for illustration me,” Jorge added. “He was a very bully boxer himself, not conscionable because of me, but he was conscionable a bully boxer by himself.”

When Carlos was a inferior astatine Wildcat Academy successful nan Bronx — and had conscionable racked up a triumph successful nan finals of nan USA Boxing Junior Metropolitan Championships — he told The Daily News he was “actually much a boxer than my brother, but we person akin styles.” 

“He helped maine container erstwhile I was young,” Carlos said during nan 2007 interview. “I saw each nan trophies he was winning, and I wanted to person immoderate of my own. I saw really each nan difficult activity for him has paid off, and now it’s starting to salary disconnected for me, too.”

But Carlos traded successful his gloves and had been moving for 15 years arsenic a sanitation worker for a backstage company, his relative said. 

He besides loved playing basketball, his relative said.

“Now, pinch nan upwind starting to get warmer, he would ever beryllium extracurricular playing hoops connected his disconnected days aliases whenever,” he said. “He worked astatine night, truthful [in the] daytime he played basketball, and he went to activity astatine night.”

Jorge besides described Carlos arsenic an “introvert” who was “a awesome brother, awesome father, awesome friend, ever personification you tin count on.”

“He didn’t return proposal very good but it’s a small precocious for that,” he added. 

The motive for nan fatal shooting was nether investigation Wednesday.

But rule enforcement sources said witnesses and 911 callers reported a group of group were gathered extracurricular erstwhile shots rang retired and Teron was hit.

Jorge said his relative whitethorn person been changeable arsenic an enactment of retaliation aft he sewage into a fist conflict successful nan aforesaid vicinity past week. 

“We’re not judge if [the shooter was] nan aforesaid personification he had nan altercation pinch successful that cervix of nan woods,” Jorge said. “I’m not judge why he was location astatine 11 astatine night. Nothing bully happens astatine 11 astatine night.”

Jorge added that his relative whitethorn person been watching a dice crippled astatine nan time, though he does not play dice himself. 

Early Wednesday evening, 2 reddish candles were placed connected nan sidewalk wherever nan shooting happened, pinch a bull car guarding nan scene. 

No arrests person been made successful nan murder. 

Meanwhile, his family launched a GoFundMe page to thief screen nan costs of his ceremonial and memorial services. 

“It is pinch dense hearts that we stock nan passing of our beloved brother, Carlos Teron, who near america unexpectedly past night,” Carlos’ loved ones wrote.

“Our family is heartbroken and still processing this immense loss. Carlos was a kind, caring, and genuine psyche who touched truthful galore lives pinch his warmth and presence.”