Doting dad who shared birthday with twins and wife is shot dead just weeks after learning their third child is on the way

Tragedy has struck a viral Ohio mates aft the hubby and soon to beryllium father-of-three died aft being changeable successful the head. 

Scierra Blair, 33, and her husband, José Ervin, Jr., 32, made nationalist headlines past twelvemonth erstwhile they welcomed twins into the satellite connected the nonstop aforesaid time of their ain associated birthday.

The mates were some calved connected August 18 and connected that aforesaid time successful 2023, A'ria and José Ervin III were calved - to which José past declared had been the 'best day contiguous ever,' People reported.

But 2 months aft the mates shared a family-of-four associated day celebration, José was gunned down and changeable aggregate times astatine a Dunkin Donuts connected Turney Road successful Garfield Heights.

His decease came conscionable weeks aft the mates learned that their 3rd kid is connected the way.

'We conscionable got joined successful June. We didn't adjacent get to beryllium joined for six months,' Scierra told News 5 Cleveland.

'They don't person the close to bargain a life. We are not God. We don't person that right.' 

José near a section barroom with his bestfriend successful the aboriginal greeting hours of October 4 earlier heading to a state station.

Surveillance video shows José ordering nutrient and drinks astatine the model earlier approaching a radical of radical and asking for a cigarette, Chloe' Ervin-Dozier, his sister, told People.

An statement erupted betwixt José and different antheral successful a achromatic shirt, which 2 women attempted to intervene. But the confrontation lone escalated erstwhile the antheral successful the achromatic garment pulled retired a weapon from his bag.

José began to tally crossed Turney Road arsenic aggregate weapon shots were fired earlier helium was yet deed and fell connected a curb successful beforehand of Dunkin. 

'He chased my member down similar helium was prey,' Ervin Dozier added.

The chartless antheral and the 2 women proceeded to get backmost into their car and thrust away. 

José was transported to Marymount Hospital for treatment, but succumbed to his injuries - which included a changeable to the caput - and yet passed distant soon after.

He near down his one-year-old twins and his wife, Scierra, who is 10-weeks large with their 3rd child. 

'My lad was begging, my lad was saying "don't bash this, don't termination me, man,"' Rhonda Ervin, José's mother, told News 5 Cleveland. 'And helium did it anyway. They did it anyway.'

His decease comes conscionable arsenic the mates were settling successful to their newfound household life. The brace had tied the knot successful June of this year, celebrating their emotion successful a ample ceremonial astatine Lee-Seville Baptist Church successful Cleveland, People reported.

Two months aft their wedding, they celebrated their quadruple day enactment unneurotic arsenic a family, enjoying vanilla buttercream frosting barroom covered successful sprinkles and topped with a 'One' candle.

Despite the twin's having a cold, their extended household was inactive capable to observe the milestone connected a four-hour Facetime telephone - each getting their ain idiosyncratic barroom to articulation successful connected the festivities.

'We partied - we truly had a bully time,' Ervin-Dozier added. 'I genuinely deliberation for José, this enactment was 1 for the books.' And his day privation had already travel true.

'All José wanted to bash was to beryllium a father.' 

The mates had ever dreamed of surviving together, and precocious enactment down a deposit for a location successful Parma, Ohio.

José had celebrated his assemblage graduation successful February with a grade successful gathering attraction and was acceptable to commencement enactment successful a welding programme connected October 14.

He besides started up his ain concern - a HVAC gathering attraction company. Banking connected his 3rd kid being a boy, helium had named the start-up Jose & Sons. 

Police are searching for a fishy successful the execution and person confirmed that determination is simply a car of involvement that they're actively looking for, News 5 Cleveland reported. 

The Shell state station, besides located connected Turney Road and adjacent to the scene, is besides a portion of the probe into the shooting. 

But José's household person urged the antheral who killed their loved 1 to crook himself in.

'He's got twins here, a lad and a girl. They request their daddy now,' Jose Ervin Sr., Jose's father, told News 5.

'We got to measurement up and rise our grandkids. You took a bully antheral away.' 

José was described by his household arsenic the 'glue' that held everyone adjacent together. He was said to beryllium well-known successful the assemblage and posed nary menace to anybody.

'José was the airy of everybody's life,' Ervin-Dozier added. 'It's hard that he's not with us.'

The household has created a GoFundMe leafage to assistance with ceremonial costs and further enactment for his woman and children.