SAN ANTONIO – A week after he was arrested for shooting and wounding a Fredericksburg police officer and leading San Antonio police on a high speed chase, Robert Rendon, 31, called a friend from jail.
As the second week of his trial on aggravated assault of a peace officer charges began Monday prosecutors played a portion of that phone call for the jury.
“Can you believe it?” Rendon told his friend. “I shot 4 (expletives deleted) and not one of the (expletives deleted) died.”
Rendon was talking about the Fredericksburg shooting and the exchange of gunfire with San Antonio police during a chase. That chase began in Gillespie County continued through Comal County and ended in San Antonio with Rendon’s arrest.
In the call Rendon complained about the traffic stop in Fredericksburg that led to the shooting of Officer Bradley Durst.
“I tried to kill him,” Rendon said. “He (expletive deleted) pulled me over for nothing, I didn’t do (expletive deleted) nothing, I was going the speed limit and everything.”
During the chase through San Antonio he was shooting, according to police, and he admitted as much during the call.
“I was shooting out the back windows and was talking to some friends of mine,” he said. “They had called me and told me that they loved me and they wanted me to stop and give up. They didn’t want me to die.”
He was finally arrested on Interstate 10 East and Ackerman Road and charged with aggravated assault on a peace officer.
He is also facing charges of attempted capital murder in Gillespie County for shooting Durst. That trial is expected to begin next month.
He is facing a maximum sentence of life in prison in both cases.
Closing arguments are expected to begin Tuesday in the first phase of the San Antonio trial in Judge Kevin O’Connell’s 227th District Court.
