"I got shot!" Video shows man knocking on cousin's door after shooting
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- New exclusive surveillance video shows the moments shortly after a tow truck driver was shot during an attempted robbery in Southwest Philadelphia.
Police say the victim was parking his truck for the night when four men approached and announced a robbery on South 72nd Street near Greenway Avenue around 11 p.m. Monday. Then they shot him three times.
"I got shot," Sallieu Sesay can be heard saying in the video.
The gunmen ran from the scene after shooting Sesay, a 40-year-old father of five children.
A doorbell security camera captured the heart-pounding moments after the shooting. Sesay rushed to his cousin's home and knocked on the door.
He lost a lot of blood, but he was placed in stable condition at the hospital.
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Sesay's father says his son had to undergo surgery. He has a message for the four suspects.
"Why are you doing this to him? Don't you have a heart to think about this? That's somebody's son, somebody's father, somebody's brother, somebody's cousin. Why are you doing this?" Mohamed Sesay said.
Mohamed Sesay said his son showed his determination to live by running to his cousin's home for help.
"According to the doctor, the way he was bleeding, without him making that effort to go to his cousin, and knock on the door, he would be dying from the bleeding by the gunshot," Mohamed Sesay said. "So he is strong, he saved his own life."
Sesay recently purchased the truck he was using and is an independent operator, his father said.
"The danger is everywhere in this business," Brian Riker, of the Pennsylvania Towing Association, said.
Riker said drivers can sometimes be targeted for cash.
"Unfortunately that is a misconception that we have pockets full of cash and makes an easy target," Riker said.
So far, police have not made any arrests. They are looking for four men who were all wearing dark clothing.
Anyone with information should contact police.