A recent Dallas Baptist University Graduate was recovering Friday from wounds suffered in a freeway attack.
Anthony Edwards, of Arlington, said he was driving westbound on Interstate 20 near Hampton Road in Dallas when nine shots struck his Dodge Durango around 3 p.m. Thursday.
Edwards said a Kia Soul, with a man at the wheel and a woman in the passenger seat, drove up beside him twice on the freeway. He said the shots were fired at him on the second pass.
“I roll down the window. I say what’s going on? Next thing I know I hear gun shots, and I drove off the freeway so I wouldn’t get hit. And it was just random. I’m just a student,” he said.
To get away, Edwards said he drove into the center median and down an embankment to Hampton Road below the freeway.
“Glass is flying. I didn’t feel anything. It was like I went black. I feel like an angel was with me,” Edwards said.
The victim said he suffered four graze wounds from the bullets that passed by him in the vehicle but he was not aware of all four until a manager at the repair shop where his car was towed pointed them out.
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“He didn’t feel it,” said Manager Seat Trites. “He had me show it to him, take a picture of it actually and show it to him. It looks like it may have been a bullet wound lodged into his side. I told him he needed to go to the hospital.”
Edwards said he has applied to law schools and also serves as a Christian minister. He said he cannot imagine why anyone would shoot at him.
“I’m not a guy who’s involved in any gang activity. I’m a guy who’s trying to live for God. I’m trying to better myself with education,” he said.
Dallas Police confirmed Friday an investigation of aggravated assault is underway.
Edwards said he hopes media attention will help police arrest a suspect.
“This could happen to me, you or your children,” he said.
