Husband killed by wife’s lover foretold impending killing, the night before

Sergio Chavez-Perez, 32, was shot in front of his wife and their two-year-old around 7am on December 19, 2021, in Lakewood, California

Shooter was his wife Araceli Perez’s boyfriend Tyshaun Drummond, 42, allegedly burst through the door and committed the double murder

Late the night before coming home drunk, Chavez-Perez, had told his wife, ‘Tonight, somebody’s going to die’

The suspect, Tyshaun Drummond is also accused of killing Nicholas Hardy, 36, who lived in an apt below the Perez family minutes after killing Chavez-Perez

Araceli Perez testified that she saw her lover, Tyshaun Drummond, standing with a gun near Nicholas Hardy’s body

Drummond who was arrested at the crime scene, is charged with two counts first-degree homicide, two counts unlawful weapons possession and Burglary

Tyshaun Drummond, [photo], allegedly burst through the door of the Perez home and killed Sergio Chavez-Perez and his two year-old daughter in front of his wife and minor children on Dec 19, 2021. He had been having an illicit affair with the victim’s wife

‘Tonight, somebody’s going to die,’ these are the five chilling words a California man spoke hours before he was allegedly murdered in his bedroom by his wife’s lover. 
Sergio Chavez-Perez, 32, was shot standing at the door of his bedroom shot in front of his spouse and their her two-year-old daughter around 7.00 am on December 19, 2021.
His wife’s boyfriend,Tyshaun Drummond, 42, allegedly burst through the door of the apartment in Lakewood, California and killed him. 
The widow, Araceli Perez, said her two other children, a 3-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter, were present in the living room of the apartment when the deadly intrusion occurred.
It was déjà Vu the night prior, Araceli testified in court on Wednesday Oct. 2, as her husband coming home after a drunken night predicted the killings.
Chavez-Perez came home drunk as his family was sitting down to dinner, “came in, grabbed some food and left the apartment,” she said. he then went to hang out with his brother and some other people she didn’t know outside their apartment building. 

After coming home after a drunken night out, Chavez-Perez said five chilling words: ‘Tonight, somebody’s going to die,’ his wife Araceli Perez, [photo], testified in court on Wednesday

Returning to the apartment around 7 or 8 p.m., Chavez-Perez went to the bathroom, came out, turned to his wife and said, “Tonight, somebody’s going to die,” after which he left the home with a knife.
That’s when she warned Drummond via text that Chavez-Perez had left the home with a weapon.
Hardy and others were at a party in the downstairs apartment that night.
She had no idea where her husband went. However, her husband returned home shortly after, no later than 10 pm and crawled into bed with her where they watched television until they fell asleep. 
It wasn’t until the next morning when Drummond ambushed the couple that violence broke out. 
Despite Chavez-Perez holding his hands up after Drummond burst into their home, the armed intruder allegedly, shot the homeowner dead, the prosecutor said. 
The couple’s other two children, 3 and 12, were in the living room while the shooting occurred. 
Drummond is also accused of shooting the couples downstairs neighbor, Nicholas Hardy.
Hardy, 36, was killed after he was hit by five bullets. 

Drummond [right], is also accused of killing Nicholas Hardy, 36, who was shot with five bullets. Perez testified that she saw Drummond standing with a gun near Hardy’s body. Hardy lived in the apartment below them 

The court heard that Araceli Perez and Tyshaun Drummond began their affair in early 2021. The pair first met in 2015 or 2016 at the Brettwood apartment complex, on River Avenue in Lakewood, where she was living with her family at the time. 
More recently, he would visit the apartment directly downstairs from hers, she said. In fact,  Drummond was at the downstairs apartment on July 10, 2021, when she went there to fetch her children after they fled there because her husband had been abusive to her, she said in her testimony. 
Chronicling the affair, the court was shown text messages and photos of Drummond and Perez’s romantic relationship, including an image of the illicit lovers kissing.
However the widow said, she tried to break off her romance with her lover in September 2021, because she wanted to ‘rekindle’ her relationship with her husband. Around the same time, her husband had accused her of having an affair.

Drummond [photo], the court heard desired to take his married lover away from her husband, although she wanted to end the affair and concentrate on repairing her marriage

As the affair continued, Drummond would text Perez and call her his ‘wife-to-be’ and ‘future wife’ and wanted her to call him her ‘future husband.’ 
‘Good morning my beautiful wife-to-be,’ he wrote to her on November 30, 2021. 
‘Good morning, my love and future husband,’ she replied, according to Asbury Park Press. 
He also warned her to delete their text messages ‘in case he wants to check.’ 
On that fateful December day, Perez remembers her late husband telling her to open the apartment door because his brother was knocking, but when she did, no one was there. 
She waited a few minutes and within that span of time, Drummond came running out of the downstairs apartment and up the stairs to hers. 
‘He looked at me, he pushed me, and he opened the door to my apartment,’ she told the court. ‘I went in after him and I said in English: “My kids are here,” and he went directly into the [living] room.’

Araceli Perez also testified [photo], that her late husband was abusive to her. That she tried to break up with Drummond in September 2021 because she wanted to ‘rekindle’ the relationship in her marriage, about the same time her husband accused her of having an affair 

She told the court she thought Drummond had just come to fight, but then she watched him make his way to the bedroom, where Chavez-Perez was standing in the doorway, she heard him tell her lover to ‘calm down.’ 
After that, a gunshot rang out and Drummond fled the scene.  
‘I heard the sound of the shot. I covered my ears. I looked toward the floor. I saw the shell of the bullet on the floor and, at that time, Tyshaun left,’ a tearfully Araceli testified.
Desperately trying to save her husband, who was no longer breathing, Araceli said shed called 911 in hysterics as his ‘blood was flowing out at a high rate.’ 
When she opened the front door again to see if police had arrived, she noticed Hardy’s body lying on the hallway floor and Drummond standing outside with a gun in his left hand. 
‘That is the day I found out that he is left-handed,’ she testified. 
According to the police report, officers from the Lakewood Township Police Department were summoned to an apartment complex on River Avenue for a report of shots having been fired.  Police Dispatch was able to supply the Officers with a description of the suspect who fired the shots.  
Responding cops located an individual matching the description, later identified as Drummond, in front of the apartment complex.  
Officers ordered the male figure to lay on the ground. The subject had to be subdued with a taser after he refused to comply and when officers entered the apartment building, they discovered two deceased males, Nicholas Hardy and Sergio Chavez-Perez, both men were shot in the head.
The man in custody, Tyshaun Drummond, was identified as the person who shot both victims.
Drummond has been held in the Ocean County Jail since his release from a local hospital on December 21, 2021.
Drummond sat calmly in the courtroom as the married ex-girlfriend he allegedly widowed testified, for the prosecution. 
He has been charged for the men’s death, as well as, for possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, unlawful possession of a weapon, and burglary.