In the image, one of the cheerleaders who was shot by the shooter who was already arrested.
ELGIN, Texas
the wave of attacks armed in USA to people showing up in the wrong place raged Tuesday when a man fatally shot two cheerleaders in a parking lot after one of them got into a car mistakenly thinking it was his.
The shooting happened in Elgin, east of Austin, in a parking lot where Woodlands Elite Cheer Company staff gather, owner Lynne Shearer said.
The attack was added to two others days ago, when the victims appeared in the wrong directions. In one, Ralph Yarl, a black teenager, was shot and wounded when he showed up at the wrong house in Kansas City, Missouri, to look for his younger siblings. In the other, Kaylin Gillis, a 20-year-old woman looking for a friend’s house in upstate New York, was shot dead when she drove to the wrong address.
Heather Roth, one of four cheerleaders who changed cars after practice, said she got out of her friend’s car and got into others thinking it was hers, but there was a stranger in the passenger seat, station KTRK reported. In a panic, she returned to her friend’s car, but the man got out of his vehicle and approached. She said that she wanted to apologize, but the man pulled out a revolver and opened fire.
Roth was grazed by a bullet and received first aid at the scene, police said. Her teammate, 18-year-old Payton Washington, was injured in the back and leg. She was taken to a hospital in critical condition, where she underwent surgery to remove part of her spleen, KTRK reported.
- Police arrested the suspect, 25-year-old Pedro Tello Rodríguez Jr., and charged him with deadly conduct.
