SAN ANTONIO – More than three weeks after a suspected road rage shooting, the San Antonio Police Department said officers arrested a man this week in connection with the shooting.
According to an updated SAPD report, Sebastian Terrazas Rodriguez, 24, was taken into custody on Tuesday.
In his arrest warrant, which KSAT obtained on Wednesday, officers said Rodriguez got into an argument with an unidentified 49-year-old woman just before 8:45 a.m. on April 13 in the 8500 block of Running Horse, near Five Palms Drive.
Rodriguez became upset with the woman after she backed out of her driveway while he was driving down the street. According to the affidavit, Rodriguez blocked the woman’s vehicle and exited his own vehicle.
The woman, who also got out of her vehicle, pulled out her cellphone and began taking pictures of Rodriguez and his vehicle, which police said prompted Rodriguez to snatch her phone out of her hands.
Authorities said a 38-year-old man watched Rodriguez snatch the woman’s cellphone and intervened. He told Rodriguez to give the phone back to her.
In the affidavit, police said the woman got her cellphone back when Rodriguez returned to his vehicle.
As the 38-year-old victim began driving away from the scene a block away from the original argument, the affidavit states Rodriguez pulled up in his vehicle next to the victim and opened fire before fleeing.
According to Rodriguez’s arrest warrant, the victim suffered a gunshot wound to his left arm.
Upon arrival, officers began administering aid to the victim until emergency personnel made it to the scene. The victim was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
How law enforcement tracked down Rodriguez
Before he was shot, the victim told police he took a picture of Rodriguez and later sent officers the photo.
After finding the license plate connected to the suspect vehicle, investigators learned that the car belonged to a relative of Rodriguez. SAPD detectives spoke with Rodriguez’s relative, who told them they sold him the vehicle “approximately two years ago.”
A search of the state’s driver license photo database for a person that looked like the photo taken by the victim also brought police to Rodriguez, according to the affidavit.
According to jail records, Rodriguez was officially booked into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center on an aggravated assault for discharging a weapon from a motor vehicle charge — a first-degree felony — just before 11 p.m. Tuesday.
Court documents show a judge set his bond at $100,000. Rodriguez is expected to make his next court appearance on Aug. 3, records indicate.
SAPD said its investigation is ongoing.
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