Another mistake, another shooting
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/19/us/texas-cheerleaders-woodlands-elite-shooting/index.html
2 cheerleaders were shot in a Texas supermarket parking lot after one opened the door to the wrong vehicle. A suspect is under arrest
Officers responding just after midnight Tuesday to an H-E-B supermarket parking lot found two people in a vehicle who’d been struck by bullets, police said, citing preliminary reports. One with serious injuries was rushed by helicopter to a hospital and in critical condition, while the other was treated at the scene, the release said.
An image of Ralph Yarl taken from social media
The White homeowner accused of shooting a Black teen who rang his doorbell turns himself in and is released on bail
The latter girl had gotten out of a friend’s car and opened the door to a vehicle she thought was hers, only to find a man sitting in the passenger seat, she said during a livestreamed prayer vigil Tuesday night at her cheer team’s gym, CNN affiliate KTRK reported.
Heather Roth said she was trying to apologize to the man when he got out out of the passenger door.
“He just threw his hands up, and then he pulled out a gun and he just started shooting at all of us,” Roth said, fighting tears.
By the way, the initial charge - "Deadly conduct" is the name for "shooting at people" in Texas:
https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-22-05/
Texas Penal Code - PENAL § 22.05. Deadly Conduct
(a)?A person commits an offense if he recklessly engages in conduct that places another in imminent danger of serious bodily injury.
(b)?A person commits an offense if he knowingly discharges a firearm at or in the direction of:
(1)?one or more individuals; ?or
(2)?a habitation, building, or vehicle and is reckless as to whether the habitation, building, or vehicle is occupied.
(c)?Recklessness and danger are presumed if the actor knowingly pointed a firearm at or in the direction of another whether or not the actor believed the firearm to be loaded.
(d)?For purposes of this section, “building,” “habitation,” and “vehicle” have the meanings assigned those terms by Section 30.01.
(e)?An offense under Subsection (a) is a Class A misdemeanor. ?
An offense under Subsection (b) is a felony of the third degree.
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...in case anyone is wondering "why didn't they charge him with (something not relevant to Texas law)".
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