A Missouri mother is in the hospital recovering after she was shot in the face and nearly killed in an act of domestic violence.“I didn’t realize how toxic of a relationship and how dangerous of a situation she was in,” Patrick Dolan said of his relative, Heather Siorek. “I don’t think she realized it either.”KSDK reports Siorek’s ex-boyfriend, Anthony Schanuth, has been arrested in the case. Siorek’s injuries have left her unable to speak, but she wrote that she “was not going to leave my kids motherless,” the station reported. Siorek and Schanuth had dated for less than a year before the shotgun attack, Dolan said. “He pretty much just let her lay on the floor and, and let her bleed out, and he walked out and smoked a cigarette,” Dolan said. Siorek will have to undergo facial reconstructive surgery. A GoFundMe has been set up to assist in her recovery. “He’s forever changed her life, but I know she’ll persevere through this, and continue to be an amazing mother and friend to us all,” said Dolan. Schanuth is behind bars on a $500,000 bond.Help is available for those in need of domestic violence resources. Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE) for confidential help 24/7.
FLORISSANT, Mo. —
A Missouri mother is in the hospital recovering after she was shot in the face and nearly killed in an act of domestic violence.
“I didn’t realize how toxic of a relationship and how dangerous of a situation she was in,” Patrick Dolan said of his relative, Heather Siorek. “I don’t think she realized it either.”
KSDK reports Siorek’s ex-boyfriend, Anthony Schanuth, has been arrested in the case.
Siorek’s injuries have left her unable to speak, but she wrote that she “was not going to leave my kids motherless,” the station reported.
Siorek and Schanuth had dated for less than a year before the shotgun attack, Dolan said.
“He [Schanuth] pretty much just let her lay on the floor and, and let her bleed out, and he walked out and smoked a cigarette,” Dolan said.
Siorek will have to undergo facial reconstructive surgery. A GoFundMe has been set up to assist in her recovery.
“He’s forever changed her life, but I know she’ll persevere through this, and continue to be an amazing mother and friend to us all,” said Dolan.
Schanuth is behind bars on a $500,000 bond.
Help is available for those in need of domestic violence resources. Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE) for confidential help 24/7.
