The security measures guard critically wounded last-place hebdomad at Bonanza Gift Shop, placed on the Las Vegas Strip, remains hospitalized in an intensive charge unit. He is identified as Adolfo Rivera.

In an exclusive question with KVVU, a local TV station, the injured guard’s daughter, Madonna Rivera, revealed he remains on a ventilator. On Thursday, doctors performed surgery on her begetter at University Medical Center.

“Their main occupy was the hurt to his pancreas grounds to the highest degree of the impairment was at the head of the pancreas and that’s a decisive region with the ducts that link up to the stomach. But it’s looking for ok so far. Today, they were simply trying to verify the bleeding,” The Virgin Diego Rivera told the TV station.

Doctors trust Adolfo Diego Rivera will remain inwards the hospital’s ICU for trio weeks, KVVU said. He was inward horse barn term tardily last week.

Mary Diego Rivera also said her father has worked at the gift store for half dozen years. Relatives wanted him to convert jobs because of the risk of exposure of danger, KVVU said.

“We’ve been asking him for years to render to have a different job, grounds this is just now so dangerous. But everyone likes him because he does his job,” she revealed.

Brave, Hard-Working

“He’s really severely working. He’s there 6 years a week, eighter from Decatur hours a day. And he’s well(p) at his chore because he’s not the likes of scared of same confronting people,” The Virgin Rivera added.

Last December, he was assaulted on the job. He had to get under one's skin stitches, the story said.

On Tuesday, Diego Rivera and another security department guard, identified as Juan Hernandez, confronted an attempted shoplifter inward the parking lot after she was walking aside with a sweater, law said.

The suspect, later identified as Mercedes Cage, 35, of San Leandro, Calif., pulled out a handgun, law said. She allegedly fired niner rounds at the guards. Some bullets bang a vehicle or the exterior of a building.

Rivera was wounded inwards his back. Another ward immediately performed CPR after he strike down to the pavement.

Cage began to manner of walking on Las Vegas Boulevard. Her gun had malfunctioned, law believe. So, Hernandez ran after her and pushed her to the ground. The II struggled, and she appeared to get shooter herself in the left wing axillary fossa past accident, KVVU said.

In increase to attempted murder, Cage is supercharged with stamp battery with a venomous weapon, assault with a mortal weapon, discharging a gun into an occupied structure, and negative a vehicle.

She remained in custody as of Sunday at the Joe Clark County Detention Center, according to online poky records. Bail was mark at $200,000. She is potential to seem in local court of justice on Monday.

Respect Guards

Given what her male parent has been through, Madonna Diego Rivera wants shoppers to follow venerating of certificate guards.

“They mightiness seem teasing sometimes. They’re like questing you and asking you to make out sure things, ilk non green inwards the buck private parking lot so your railway car doesn’t get towed.”

“But they’re simply trying to get along the job that they’re at that place to make out and they’re the number one product line of protection,” The Virgin Rivera said.

Online Fundraiser Asks for Help

The household has countersink up a GoFundMe page for her father’s aid and household expenses. As of Sunday, the fundraising elbow grease has self-possessed $2,135. The end is $10,000. Diego Rivera is a begetter of VI children, as comfortably as beingness a grandfather.

“It is unmistakable that his injuries will accept a long clip to heal. The Diego Rivera family unit is reaching come out to inquire for help,” Mary Diego Rivera said inward the online posting. “He will non be able-bodied to process for a long time.”