Two people are hospitalized after they were shot Tuesday morning in the Highland Hills neighborhood in Southern Dallas.
Dallas Police said officers were called to a shooting along the 3900 block of Happy Canyon Drive at about 7:30 a.m. Officers arrived to find a man and a teenager who had been shot by an unknown person.
Justin Pleitez, 16, told NBC 5/Telemundo 39 that a woman who lived in the neighborhood was being assaulted by her son and that at least one person tried to intervene.
The man stopped attacking his mother, got mad and left, Pleitez said, but not before he threatened to come back with a gun.
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“He was on his mom. My family took him off. He started hitting people,” said Pleitez. “They started pushing him off and like grabbing. But then he just started hitting everybody. He started hitting us.”
A few minutes passed, Pleitez said, and the man returned with a weapon and started shooting cars and toward his family's house. Pleitez said his little brother, who is 13, was shot twice, once in the hand and arm, and once in his leg.
“I heard two. I heard two loud ones like boom boom,” he said. “He shot the house. There’s one, two, three holes. And inside there’s three more.”
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Pleitez's father told NBC 5/T39 that the teenager was expected to undergo surgery on Tuesday afternoon. His current condition is not known. Pleitez said the other man who was injured was a 21-year-old tenant named Omar who'd been shot in the leg.
After further investigation, DPD identified the suspect as 25-year-old Marlon Perkins. Perkins was arrested and charged with two counts of Aggravated Assault, Possession of a Controlled substance, Deadly Conduct, Unlawful Possession of a Firearm and Burglary -Assault.
Longtime resident of the neighborhood, Tomisha Walker, told NBC 5 she could’ve been out for a morning walk at the time, and near the line of fire.
“A lot of people wouldn’t have intervened,” Walker said. “It was just someone seeing someone in need of help, and they helped them. And it cost them.”
Police say the shooting was an isolated incident, but have not confirmed any other details about what may have happened.
The investigation into the shooting is ongoing.
