A new shooting shocks the US. This time, for the stupidest reason imaginable, getting the wrong car in a parking lot. This is what has happened in Texas, where two teenage cheerleaders were injured by a firearm after a man shot them after trying to open the wrong car.
The Police of the city of Elgin, in the state of Texas, reported in a statement the arrest of a 25-year-old man, Pedro Tello Rodríguez, accused of having opened fire indiscriminately against a group of young people after one of them tried to enter in his car, by mistake, thinking it was his.
Two young cheerleaders were shot and one of them was seriously injured in this event that occurred on Monday night.
One of the young women recounted what happened at a vigil held in the gym of her cheerleading team, which was broadcast on social networks and echoed by ABC News.
As he explained, the young woman arrived at the parking lot aboard a friend’s car and went to change into her own vehicle. She opened the door of what she thought was her car to find a man sitting in the passenger seat.
Realizing the mistake, he apologized and returned to his friend’s car, in which four people were traveling (including her) but the owner of the vehicle he tried to get into got out and attacked the young people.
“I saw the guy get out the passenger door, I rolled down the window and I was trying to apologize to him,” but he “put his hands up, pulled out a gun and started shooting at all of us,” explained the young woman, Heather Roth.
Tello was arrested hours later thanks to the recordings of the video surveillance cameras and was still wearing the same clothes he had worn during the incident.
This is the third case of people injured or killed by mistake in recent days. Ralph Yarl, 16, made the wrong house last Thursday night in Kansas City (Missouri) when he went looking for his two younger brothers, and the owner of the house, an 84-year-old man, shot him, wounding him in a arm and above the left eye.
Last Saturday, a young woman, Kaylin Gillis, died after her vehicle accidentally entered the driveway of a man’s house, who opened fire on the car, two events that have shocked part of American society that calls for Greater gun control.
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