On the 18th (local time), a male teenage cheerleader in Elgin, Texas, was shot and killed while riding another car in a supermarket parking lot after practicing.
According to the Associated Press, girls trying to get into a pick-up belonging to the Woodland Elite Cheer Company in Elgin, east of Austin, mistakenly thought that Heather Ross, one of the four members of the team, was riding in a friend’s car and got into the car in question. In the seat next to the bay was a strange man.
Ross, startled, went back to his friend’s car and got into it, but the man got out of the car, followed him to the car, and shot the girl through the window as she tried to apologize.
Ross suffered a graze from a single bullet, but fellow teammate Peyton Washington, 18, suffered serious injuries after being hit in the leg and back.
“Peyton opened the car door and soon started coughing up blood,” Ross said. He was immediately taken to the hospital but is in critical condition. Doctors said the girl had ruptured her spleen and had to have part removed, KTRK-TV reported.
Police arrested 25-year-old Pedro Tello Rodriguez on suspicion of felony third-degree murder.
According to a police release on the 19th, police arrested him after a supermarket manager’s eyewitness account and tracking Rodriguez’s license plate recorded on a parking lot surveillance camera. However, it was not disclosed whether there was a video of the shooting scene or any data related to the incident.
The seriously injured Washington, a senior at Round Rock High School, has been a star player on the cheerleading team since birth, despite missing one lung, the school said.
Washington has been gearing up to enter Baylor University’s gymnastics and tumbling teams next year, and the Woodland cheerleading team has been training hard ahead of this weekend’s Cheerleading World competition in Orlando, Florida.
The team now prays for Washington’s life and says they’re entering the contest for her.
The incident follows the recent shooting death of an elderly black boy in Kansas City by an elderly homeowner and the shooting death of a white girl in New York who drove to the wrong house in New York, leading Americans to fear about the possibility of being killed by mistake. is being weighted.
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Source: Donga
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