A young girl is recovering after being shot twice in an apparent road rage incident in southeast Houston, and her mother is speaking out about the suspected gunman.
“She don’t deserve to go through this,” Rosemary Sabio, the mother of Luna Padilla, toldABC 13.“She’s just 7 years old.”
On Sunday evening, Sabio was driving a red Nissan with Luna sitting in the backseat when the car stopped at a red light in the 7500 block of Bellfort at Telephone Road.
Sabio told ABC 13 that she was briefly checking her phone when the light turned green. She heard a honk from a black Lexus behind her and then resumed driving.
Sabio recalled that the Lexus driver moved to the left side of the road when she did. She switched lanes again so that the Lexus could pass her, but the Lexus driver followed her.
Sabio then heard three gunshots. Houston police latersaidthat Sabio’s daughter suffered wounds in her leg and thigh.
“She screamed, ‘Mommy!'” Sabio recalled Luna saying. “And she started crying. And I’m like, ‘What happened, mama? Mama, What happened? You’re OK. You’re OK.’ And she’s like, ‘Mommy, it hurts.’ So I stopped my car and got down.”
“It was just crazy, all these people trying to help,” Sabio recalled to the outlet.
Luna was taken to a hospital and was listed in stable condition at the time.KHOUreported that the girl was released on Tuesday.
Footage following an apparent road rage incident in southeast Houston.
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“For my daughter to go through this just because someone crazy decided to take a shot — a gun, and shoot whoever they want? It’s crazy,” Sabio told ABC 13.
Police are asking those with information about the incident to contact the Houston Police Department’s Major Assaults & Family Violence Division at 713-308-8800 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
source: people.com
