“You never know what you’re going to run into. It could be somebody that has a gun on them,” said Karla Elizondo.
SAN ANTONIO — The family of a disabled San Antonio man are angry after they say he was shot at by teens with a pellet gun outside his east side home.
The incident happened just before noon Thursday on the 3000 block of Lake Meadow, near Rigsby Avenue.
Karla Elizondo says her father, 55-year-old Louis Cerratos was unloading tools from his truck when Ring doorbell video shows him encounter three kids ages 12 to 17 on their bicycles.
“I just heard my mom saying, ‘Hey, hey, hey…’ And I mean, I thought my dad was just backing up. So I’m like, maybe a car’s coming or she’s warning him to stop. So I go check and he’s walking towards the door already and she’s like, ‘These kids just shot at him,'” said Karla Elizondo, Cerratos daughter.
Karla says her father came outside again to finish unloading the tools and saw the kids looking in the back of his truck. She says her dad asked them what they were doing and that’s when the older kid shot at her father.
“Just violating someone’s place of safety, the fact that they’re children, the fact that their parents just kind of let them run the streets, not knowing what they’re getting into. It’s really upsetting,” said Elizondo.
Karla says her father is diabetic and just fought off an infection to his legs and she believes the pellet that hit her father was inches away from causing more injury to his leg.
“That’s not a game. My father could have been seriously hurt. When you’re diabetic and you get hurt like that, you can even lose a leg,” she said.
After the shooting, they called 911 and found a small round pellet next to her father’s truck, which appears to be from an air-soft rifle.
Karla says the kids appeared to be between the ages of 12 to 17 and took off on their bicycles, towards Sinclair Elementary. She says her father is OK but shaken up.
San Antonio police say they are investigating this as an assault with bodily injury.
Karla says she hopes someone including the parents of the children involved will do the right thing and turn them in.
“For the sake of those children… You never know what you’re going to run into. It could be somebody that has a gun on them,” said Elizondo.
If you know anything about the incident, you can call SAPD’s non-emergency line at 210-207-7273.