Crystal Rodriguez, a young woman killed in Dallas by a stray bullet.
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Police authorities in Dallas, Texas, are tirelessly searching for the author of the shots that this Tuesday, January 11, ended the life of lto young Crystal Rodriguez.
Crystal Rodríguez was sleeping peacefully in her bedroom when she was struck by a stray bullet that entered her home. https://t.co/Ubx4oCv5nR
The Dallas police reported that the person responsible for a shooting that occurred on Tuesday caused the death of Rodríguez, who was sleeping in his room. She was hit by a stray bullet. The incident occurred in a residential area of that city in the United States.
The newspaperThe Dallas Morning News confirmed this Wednesday, January 12, the death of the 18-year-old girl. “She was lying in her bed, she was sleeping,” Crystal’s mother said in dialogue with that morning.
The story of Crystal Rodríguez’s mother
Crystal Vital, mother of the 17-year-old girl killed by a stray bullet in Texas, described in an interview the moment she found her daughter lying in her bedroom.
“Someone shot up my house and that bullet hit my daughter… She bled to death,” said the mother of 17-year-old Crystal Rodriguez. https://t.co/rzHmhWyRiK
Vital was woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of gunshots. Instinctively, she went to her daughter’s bedroom to see if she was in good condition. Upon entering the room, he saw her lying on the floor, immersed in the incipient pool of blood that was beginning to form on the floor.
The woman indicated that Crystal Rodríguez was making a great effort to breathe. He tried to help her, get her up on the bed. It was there that he found the gunshot wound.
“I don’t understand how anyone would do this. Why would they want to hurt me or my family?” the woman was outraged.
People magazine reported the death of Crystal Rodríguez, who was taken to a nearby hospital after being hit by a bullet.
A shootout without responsibility
The shooting took place in the street around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. Going out into the street, the residents of the neighborhood found the bullet marks on cars and garage doors. An ammunition casing was also found meters from the epicenter of the shooting. The police authorities try to find the suspects. At the moment there are no identified, much less detainees.
Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia expressed his sorrow after Crystal’s death: “The incident makes me angry. The senseless loss of a life”
“We are in the early stage of the investigation and it is truly tragic. I only hope that you can receive a call when our units track down this individual or individuals, so that you can be a witness to the arrest, “added the police official.
The police chief clarified that, according to the investigation carried out by the force he directs, the Rodríguez family is not involved in any illegal or criminal activity. That is to say, they rule out that Crystal’s crime was premeditated, a reckoning.
“The suspects we are looking for are cowards who have no respect for human life, who shot indiscriminately into a house and took the life of an 18-year-old girl. That’s his description,” Garcia said.
“It was a cowardly act. When things like this happen, I get angry, we take it personally, I take it personally. The men and women of this department take it personally”, the police officer closed his speech. The Dallas police opened a phone line for anyone who can provide information about the episode to communicate. They offer $5,000 rewards for those who provide data leading to an arrest.
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