SAN ANTONIO – A 22-year-old man is in custody following a road rage incident that left a 6-month old child injured on the city’s Northwest Side late Sunday night, according to San Antonio police.
Officers were called around 9 p.m. to the 7600 block of Tezel Road, not far from Mainland Drive and Guilbeau Road after receiving word of a shooting.
According to police, two vehicles were near Braun Road and Tezel Road when one of the drivers ran a red light. That’s when, police say, a 22-year-old man honked his horn at the other driver.
A preliminary police report states the honking of the horn angered the driver of the vehicle, a 22-year-old man, who was also traveling with a woman and a six-month-old child.
That driver then began to pursue the other driver intentionally and aggressively, with the infant still in the vehicle and not sitting in a car seat, police said.
Authorities say the road rage continued and the man began to fire gunshots at the other vehicle, but no one was hurt. Sometime during the altercation, the man stopped at a store and dropped off both the woman and the child, police said.
The police report states that the man continued pursuing the other car and fired more shots at the victim. Eventually, the woman and child stopped at a local gas station on Tezel Road, where they met with police.
Officers eventually found the man who fired the gunshots in a nearby area and he was taken into custody without incident.
The unidentified man is now charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and endangering a child.
Police at the scene said the six-month-old was injured by shrapnel and was taken to an area hospital by ambulance with the mother.
The San Antonio Police Department, the San Antonio Fire Department and EMS all responded to the call.
The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, police said.