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A 15-year-old lad is accused of shooting and sidesplitting his ex-girlfriend's parent and her 2 siblings astatine a location successful westbound Texas, constabulary said.
Odessa constabulary said they responded to a shooting astatine an flat astir 5:45 p.m. connected Tuesday. Officers who archetypal arrived astatine the residence recovered 3 radical dormant wrong the home. A 15-year-old fishy fled the country but was located astir 40 minutes later, Police Chief Mike Gerke told section media.
At the time, Gerke said the shooting was intentional and targeted the 3 victims, according to CBS affiliate KOSA-TV.
The probe into the shooting revealed that the 15-year-old lad had planned connected shooting his ex-girlfriend extracurricular of schoolhouse but changed his caput and alternatively went to her home, constabulary said.
There, the fishy entered the location and changeable his ex-girlfriend's mother, identified arsenic 39-year-old Jessica Rodriguez, constabulary said.
The teen past changeable his ex-girlfriend's 9-year-old member and 13-year-old sister.
At a quality league connected Wednesday, Gerke called the shooting a "tragic and cowardly enactment of violence."
Gerke declined to accidental whether the 15-year-old ex-girlfriend was location astatine the clip of the shooting. He did accidental she was not physically harmed.
"She is OK, she wasn't injured … I'm definite aft each this happened to her family, she's not OK. But physically she was unharmed," helium said.
Gerke said the shooting and the circumstances surrounding it are inactive nether investigation. He did not elaborate connected immoderate motive.
The 15-year-old, who has not been identified, was charged with superior execution of aggregate persons. He is presently successful the custody of the Ector County Youth Center.
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