
In Texas, a man opened fire on cheerleaders after one of them tried to open the door of his car, mistaking it for her.
This new shooting incident is part of a series of similar incidents in the US: Last week in Missouri, a teenager was seriously injured when he went to the wrong address to pick up his younger siblings and was shot and killed by a homeowner. And in New York, a 20-year-old woman died Saturday when she was shot to death after she made the mistake of looking for a friend’s house and drove her car into the parking lot of another home.
In the Texas town of Elgin, a random moment appears to have caused a disproportionate reaction from a man in a supermarket parking lot.
The girls were returning from training and stopped at the supermarket, where some of them had previously left their cars.
Heather Roth, one of the four teenage cheerleaders, opened the car door thinking it was her car. But she saw that there was a man inside and went back to another car with three of her friends. Then the man got out of the car and approached the car, in which a young woman had already got into. “I saw a man get off the passenger side and roll down the window to apologize. He pulled out a gun and started shooting at us,” Heather told local TV channel KTRK.
Two girls were injured. One in critical condition was airlifted to the hospital.
The shooter, 25-year-old Prido Tello Rodriguez, was arrested, Elgin police said.
Source: APE-MPE, NBC.
Source: Kathimerini

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