An arrest affidavit details the road rage confrontation that ended with a 11-year-old girl being shot in San Antonio on Friday.
SAN ANTONIO — An 11-year-old girl who was critically injured in a west-side road rage shooting Friday is now out of bed and beginning to walk, according to her father.
Investigators identified Friday’s shooting suspect as 41-year-old Bryan Arceo, charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and endangering a child, according to an arrest affidavit.
San Antonio police said officers responded to a shooting in progress around 7:25 a.m. Jan. 30 at a parking lot in the 2500 block of Bandera Road, where they found two adults and an 11-year-old girl. The child had an apparent gunshot wound to her torso, police said.
Officers began life-saving measures until EMS arrived and transported the girl to University Hospital, where she underwent emergency surgery, according to investigators.
The affidavit states that witnesses reported Arceo was driving a gray Nissan Murano when he pulled out of a private driveway in the 4300 block of Timberhill Drive and cut off a maroon Kia minivan carrying the victims as they traveled south toward Wurzbach Road.
According to investigators, the driver of the Kia honked her horn, after which Arceo allegedly slammed on his brakes and “brake checked” the vehicle. Officials said the Kia then passed Arceo and stopped at a red light at Timberhill and Wurzbach in a right-turn lane, while Arceo pulled alongside in the left-turn lane.
The driver claims she saw Arceo point a handgun at her. As she turned right and accelerated, she heard a loud pop. The passenger reported smelling gunpowder and the child in the back seat said she had been shot, the affidavit states.
Police said Arceo made an illegal right turn from the left-turn-only lane and followed the victims for several blocks. Investigators said Arceo later stopped his vehicle at Northwest Loop 410 and Culebra Road, exited while holding a handgun and stood in the roadway before the victims drove around him and fled.
Officers later recovered a live 9mm round at the intersection where the shooting occurred, according to the affidavit.
Investigators also interviewed Arceo’s ex-wife, who told police she was inside Arceo’s vehicle at the time of the shooting and confirmed he carries a handgun. She identified Arceo in a photo lineup and told investigators she saw him point the gun at the maroon Kia and rack the slide before hearing a gunshot.
The affidavit states there was also an 11-year-old child inside Arceo’s vehicle during the shooting. Investigators said Arceo knowingly placed that child in danger by firing a handgun inside the vehicle.
Surveillance footage later showed Arceo’s Nissan Murano dropping off a child at a nearby school shortly after the shooting, consistent with witness statements, investigators said.
Arceo was arrested and charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of child endangerment. Court records indicate his bonds total $375,000.