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Antonio Torres
Antonio Torres
PELL LAKE — Hours before he was fatally shot by Walworth County sheriff’s deputies, Antonio J. Torres begged the mother of his 1-year-old daughter to take him back.
The ex-girlfriend had kicked him out of their Kenosha home a month earlier because of his abusive behavior. Torres often cried to her. He desperately wanted to reconcile.
“She was through with him,” the ex-girlfriend’s mother, Pat Gray, said in a phone interview from Kenosha. “I think the shock was the realization that she meant it.”
But the woman, a 32-year-old Kenosha daycare provider, allowed Torres to spend time with their daughter, Liliana J. Torres, because he was a good father, Kenosha Police Sgt. Hugh Rafferty.
Antonio Torres, a 41-year-old Pleasant Prairie factory worker, had the girl with him for the weekend for a scheduled visitation before dropping her off Monday morning.
Gray said Torres demanded: “You take me back. You take me back.”
When she told Torres it was over, he snapped.
Torres punched the woman in the chest. She fell down and blacked out, Gray said.
Torres abducted their daughter and fled west toward Walworth County. He had a shotgun with him, according to Kenosha police.
Torres called Kenosha police at 11 a.m. and told a dispatcher that he had beaten a woman, Rafferty said. He later called the woman’s house and talked to police. He told the officer he would shoot himself and his daughter if he saw police again, Rafferty said.
An Amber Alert was sent out in southeast Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
An off-duty Walworth County sheriff’s deputy spotted Torres four hours later on Highway 50 near Lake Geneva.
After a 20-minute high-speed chase, Torres pulled over along County H near Pell Lake. While sitting in the driver’s seat, Torres grabbed his daughter, placed her on the centerline of the road and pointed his shotgun at her, Graves said.
Two deputies shot and killed him.
Torres died of head trauma from a gunshot wound, Walworth County Coroner John Griebel said.
The girl was uninjured and reunited with her mother.
The names of the deputies who shot Torres were not released because the incident remains under investigation, Graves said.
The state Division of Criminal Investigation is investigating.
Torres had kidnapped his wife and children 10 years ago, Rafferty said. He spent five years in prison after that incident.
He still is married to the woman, but she has been hiding in Mississippi, Rafferty said.