Biff_Poindexter
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Man arrested after 2 Woodlands Elite cheerleaders were shot outside HEB near Austin, police say
Police say Payton Washington was one of two Woodlands Elite cheerleaders hit when someone opened fire near a grocery store outside Austin. One man is in custody.
abc13.com
"Two members of an elite competitive cheerleading team in Oak Ridge were shot Tuesday morning after one of the athletes reportedly mistakenly tried to get into the wrong car after practice. Just after midnight, cheerleader Heather Roth said she got out of her friend's car and opened the door to a vehicle she believed to be her own in the H-E-B parking lot. Roth said there was a man sitting in the passenger seat, so she initially panicked, thinking a stranger was inside her car, and got back into her friend's vehicle. When she noticed the man approach their vehicle, she said she rolled down the window to apologize, telling him she thought it was her car. Roth said the man threw up his hands, pulled out a gun, and started shooting.
According to officers, Roth suffered a graze wound and was treated and released on the scene, but her teammate, Payton Washington, was shot in the leg and the back. Washington was flown to a nearby hospital in critical condition. Elgin police arrested the alleged gunman, 25-year-old Pedro Tello Rodriguez Jr., Tuesday. He is charged with deadly conduct, though sources told ABC13 additional charges are likely."
Thankfully, Heather was not seriously injured and hopefully her friend Payton will pull thru and make a speedy recovery. No one deserves to die for an innocent mistake, a mistake that they obviously realized they made and apologized for. I personally know a few people (Tesla owners) mistake someone else's car for their car -- and I don't believe they should have been killed for that mistake.....
Now usually, claiming you were scared of black criminals and so that is why you shot a random non-criminal is a pretty good defense...but this case will be extremely hard to use that defense for....First of all, the person who is the shooter isn't someone we can empathize with as being "afraid of black criminals" because this guy is probably a wetback illegal and we all know they are mostly rapists, murders and drug dealers; so it will be difficult for people to empathize with a wetback thug....Especially folks who usually try to justify these kind of "I was scared so I shot him" shootings all the time....Secondly, the people who were shot are cheerleaders....and even tho at least one of the cheerleaders seems to have had a bit of darkie blood in her; she didn't look scary enough to justify shooting her -- so this is definitely a clear case of attempted murder and aggravated assault, definitely not self-defense.