The young pregnant wife shot by her jilted, estranged husband outside a Brooklyn school said yesterday that she was recovering from the ambush.
“I’m feeling a little better today,” victim Daisy Torres, 26, told The Post.
Torres split from hubby Juan Torres Collazo, 62, months before the dismissal-time attack at PS 384 in Bushwick, but the scorned man wouldn’t let it go.
“We’ve been together for eight months,” said Torres’ new beau, Hector Reyes, “and he kept harassing her and harassing her.
“He would threaten her saying, ‘I’m going to get you. I’m going to get you.’”
Collazo, 62, was charged with assault, criminal contempt and criminal possession of a weapon after allegedly shooting Torres, 26, in the chest, according to police.
He was taken to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
Torres and her baby miraculously survived the ambush.
“It was a .22 caliber,” Reyes said. “Any bigger and it would have killed her.
“It missed her heart by one centimeter. She still has the bullet inside of her. She’s going to have to go to the hospital in two weeks to remove it.”
The couple split because of domestic violence, Reyes said. Torres was so terrified of him, she took out an order of protection against him, according to Reyes. He was supposed to not go within 150 feet of her.
“He used to abuse her, so she didn’t want to be with him anymore,” he said.
Collazo has a child with Torres, three with another woman, and two children that died, a neighbor in his ex-wife’s building said.
“He moved to the Dominican Republic [and] got married out there,” she said, “Everything was fine, and then this happened.”
And the couple’s relationship was not sparked by love.
“The reason they got married was to get her a green card,” the neighbor said.
Additional reporting by Rebecca Harshbarger