Obsessive male dancer, 30, who stalked and stabbed his instructor, 26, is shot by cops when he refused to drop his knife along with a brave woman who tried to intervene
A man was shot during a standoff with police officers at a dance school in Argentina after he stabbed his dance instructor who he'd obsessively stalked, and the center's owner.
Police body cam video captured the moment a cop fired one shot and struck Sebastían Villareal, 30, on the leg after he attacked Julieta Antón, 26, and Sofía Bovino, 30, Monday morning in Buenos Aires.
Villareal, the only male participant in the dance class, lunged at his instructor Anton and stabbed her in the leg.
Bovino, who owns the dance studio located in the neighborhood of Palermo, told Argentine newspaper Perfil that she was handling administrative duties in another area of the studio when she heard a loud cry and ran towards the room.
When she ran in, she found him attacking Anton and heroically threw herself on top of the dance teacher to try and save her.
Julieta Antón (left) told Argentine tv station El Trece on Wednesday that she had sensed a strange mood during her interactions with Sebastián Villarreal (right) before he stabbed her and the owner of the dance school where she teaches at in Buenos Aires
Sebastián Villareal hold a knife (circled) as he stands over dance instructors, Julieta Antón and Sofía Bovino after attacking both women at a dance school in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Tuesday
'I remember kicking him and he was trying to stab Juli,' Bovino said from her hospital bed. 'I was trying to take it away from the hands, kicking him, everything. When we fell to the floor, I felt the impact of the knife on Juli's leg. There was a lot of blood.'
Cops responding to the incident found Villareal stabbing Antón as Bovino was lying on top of Antón to protect her.
Villareal is seen in the video dangling the knife over the women and told the police officers to leave or that he would kill the dance school instructors.
Cops are heard in the video repeatedly ordering him to drop the knife before he was shot in the leg and subdued.
Argentine news network TN reported Wednesday that the Buenos Aires district attorney's mental health unit determined that Villareal would be hospitalized after diagnosing him with a 'chronic and mental psychotic disorder' and said he was a 'danger to himself and others.'
Cops subdue Sebastián Villarreal after he stabbed two dance instructors at a dance studio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Tuesday. One of the police officers shot the 30-year-old in the leg after he refused instructions to drop a knife
Julieta Antón was stabbed by one of her students at the dance studio she worked at in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Tuesday
Moments before attacking dance school instructor Julieta Antón on Wednesday, Sebastián Villarreal had a photo taken of them outside the Buenos Aires studio and shared it on his Instagram account, tagging Antón and letting her know he was looking forward to 'practicing a lot and improving greatly'
During an interview with investigators, Villareal asked if he 'could return home and ask Juli for forgiveness' and if he could 'return to taking classes.'
Villareal had signed up for virtual online classes taught by Antón during the pandemic and had visited the dance studio for in-person classes, showing up at least two hours before start time.
Moments before the attack, Villareal shared a photo of him and Antón on his Instagram, telling the dance instructor that he was looking forward to 'practicing a lot and improving greatly.'
'I always noticed he was strange, but I never imagined this,' Antón told El Trece television's morning show, Los Ángeles de la Mañana, on Wednesday. 'It was horrible. Sofi was my angel.'
Antón said she is unsure when she will be returning to work.
Julieta Antón, one of two dance instructors who were attacked by a student in Buenos Aires on Wednesday
