Miami

A doorbell cam video has emerged showing a US father confessing to have killed his son after a heated argument over bringing girls to the house.

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David De Jesus Contrereas, 52, told his wife about the killing through the camera as she asked: 'Is he alive? Is he breathing?'

The video was shared even as court proceedings are on about the shooting, which happened in November last year.

"He's not breathing. He's dead," the father can be heard saying in the video, while sobbing.

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"The fighting on the way home was unbearable," David reportedly said in the footage obtained by Local 10 News last week.

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The son, identified as Eric, 22, was a student at Florida International University. Eric returned to his family in Miami on November 6 last year. 

He was reportedly shot dead on November 3, just three days before he was to turn 23. 

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In the surveillance footage, David's wife asks the reason why the violence unfolded.

David responds that the matter escalated 'from one second to the next'.

He then mentions his son Eric asking if the girls could sleep over, to which he says no. 

"It's not your fault. Please call my brother," David could be seen begging his wife in the video.

Shortly, he calls the emergency services and confesses "I just shot my son". 

Eric was found with multiple gunshot wounds. 

David was arrested in November. He pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder during his arraignment before Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Daryl Trawick, reports in the US media said. 

He is currently being held without bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. The next court hearing date is scheduled for March 11.

According to a 2014 study, between 2004-2014 period, American parents have committed filicide, the killing of one's child, about 3,000 times a year. The research drew on 32 years of data on more than 94,000 arrests across the United States.

(With inputs from agencies)