This story here is a perfect example of that - two cheerleaders in a grocery store parking lot accidentally walked up to the wrong car and the man inside opened fire on them, shooting both girls.
Radar Online reported that a Texas man shot two cheerleaders after a teenager mistook his car for their own in a grocery store parking lot, RadarOnline.com has learned. The disturbing scene unfolded shortly after midnight on Tuesday at the H-E-B grocery store in Elgin, just outside of Austin, Texas.
Heather Roth and Payton Washington were among four competitive cheerleaders who used the grocery store's location as a carpool lot. The group routinely traveled from the H-E-B on their 260-mile roundtrip drive to north Houston for practice at their competitive cheer gym, Woodlands Elite.
Roth suffered a graze gunshot wound. Washington was flown via helicopter to a nearby hospital, where she remains in ICU after suffering organ damage.
Roth told local news ABC 13 about the horrifying mistake that changed the lives of the four young girls.
According to Roth, the group arrived at the H-E-B, and upon getting out of her friend's car, she approached the vehicle of suspect Pedro Tello Rodriguez Jr., 25, which she believed to be her own.
Roth said she opened the door and saw a man in the passenger seat. Initially, the teen panicked to see the unknown man and got back in her friend's vehicle.
Upon doing so, the suspect allegedly got out of the car and approached the cheerleader's vehicle.
Roth claimed that when the suspect approached their vehicle, she rolled down the window to apologize for her mistake, but before she could say sorry, he allegedly began firing.
Roth suffered a graze wound and was treated at the scene, but Washington, who planned to attend Baylor University as a student-athlete, suffered more extensive wounds to her back and leg.
"Payton opens the door, and she starts throwing up blood," Roth said of her teammate after they were shot.
Washington has a tough road ahead of her, assuming she pulls through all of this. She will likely face many more surgeries.
The suspect fled the scene and as of this publishing, hasn’t been apprehended yet.
