UPDATE:
Okay, so a machine gun wasn't used. It appears several men shot the guy in the head.
That's better?
Police say car break-in led to shooting
Lomi Kriel: Express-News
Five men claiming to be members of the Mexican Mafia prison gang targeted an 18-year-old man on the Northeast Side on Monday afternoon after he "broke into the wrong car," shooting him several times in the head, Bexar County sheriff's deputies said Tuesday.
The brazen afternoon shooting — on a street near an elementary school and blocks from a high school — left dozens of bullet casings strewn about four crime scenes. It also prompted the lockdown of Candlewood Elementary School and delayed dozens of motorists on nearby Foster Road, who were stuck for hours in traffic.
As new details emerged about the shooting, which left Joshua Prewitt seriously injured with gunshot wounds to the head, sheriff's deputies said they were mistaken in saying Monday that the shooters fired machine guns as they chased Prewitt.
Prewitt remained in stable condition at Brooke Army Medical Center.
Prewitt remained in stable condition at Brooke Army Medical Center.
Instead, deputies said five handguns were discovered in the shooting suspects' vehicle and a semiautomatic weapon was abandoned nearby.
"It may have sounded like," automatic weapons because of the succession of the shots, said Deputy Ino Badillo. "But in reality, we can't identify that."
"It may have sounded like," automatic weapons because of the succession of the shots, said Deputy Ino Badillo. "But in reality, we can't identify that."
A deputy who was working in the neighborhood heard about 15 gunshots in "rapid succession" about 3:45 p.m., Badillo said, and raced to the area, where he spotted a Chevrolet Malibu speeding down Candlemeadow toward Binz Engleman Road. The driver and front-seat passenger of that vehicle waved at the deputy and screamed, "They killed him, they killed him," pointing at Prewitt, who was bleeding in the back seat, and to a Chevrolet Avalanche that was following closely behind, Badillo said.
The deputy gave chase and stopped the Avalanche soon after, arresting Joseph Vonallenan, 23; Jacob Rodriguez, 22; Sammy Trujillo, 21; Nick Cruz, 19; and Alejandro Isaac, 17. Each remained jailed Tuesday on charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and engaging in organized crime. Each had a combined bond set at $225,000.
The shooting remains under investigation but Badillo said it appears it was "the result of a vehicle burglary involving the victim." He said Prewitt told deputies that he did not know his alleged assailants.
In what appears to be an unrelated incident, Judson Independent School District police, who were assisting deputies with the shooting, on Monday arrested a man nearby after they found a semiautomatic gun in his car. He was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon.
A district spokesman said police don't believe that man knew the alleged shooters or the victim.
