A 17-year-old was arrested in Harris County and accused of randomly shooting students with a pellet gun as they walked home from school.
A 17-year-old was arrested Thursday in northwest Harris County after being accused of randomly shooting students with a pellet gun as they walked home from school.
Four students in total were shot while walking home from nearby Hopper Middle School and Cypress Springs High School. The shootings took place on May 4, 5, and 8.Ladd’s 12-year-old son was one of the students shot while walking home from school last Friday."It stung," said Courtney Brady. "My friend told me it was a gun. So he started running, so I started running.
On May 4, a 17-year-old girl was shot. A 14-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy were shot on May 5. Then on May 8, a 16-year-old girl was shot by the teen using a pellet gun."I remember her saying that she heard something fly through the air, and she just got hit," said Miguel Mendez, a student who witnessed one of the shootings. "Her friends helped her run away."
Jordan Constantine Balderas, a 17-year-old, was arrested Thursday and charged with four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of injuring a child. Balderas turns 18-year-old in less than 2 weeks."I’m thankful they caught him and everybody is safe," said Ladd.
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