A Texas man is in custody after allegedly shooting a 2-year-old girl during a suspected road rage incident in a Dallas neighborhood on Sunday night.
The child was accompanying her parents on a DoorDash delivery around 8 p.m. when she was shot in the backseat following a confrontation with a passing motorcyclist, multiple news outlets reported citing Dallas police.
The family told police that they had swerved to avoid hitting the man, who they said was riding with his lights off in the middle of the road, and both vehicles honked at one another. The motorcyclist allegedly then followed them, yelling, before pulling out a gun and firing into their car.
One of the bullets struck the child in her abdomen, bounced off a rib and became lodged in her diaphragm, WFAA reported citing a copy of the police affidavit. The child was taken to a hospital and was last listed as being in stable condition, police told the station.
Neighbor Jessica Huseman told reporters that she went outside upon hearing gunfire and saw the child covered in blood in the vehicle’s backseat.