A Midland man was arrested Monday on two outstanding warrants that were issued after he was accused of pointing a gun at his former girlfriend’s mother and discharging it three times into the air.
According to an Odessa Police Department report, dispatchers received a drive-by shooting call around 2 p.m. Oct. 5 from the 2400 block of Sun Street.
When officers arrived, they found a 17-year-old girl with a bloody nose who told them her former boyfriend, Victor Eddy Rodriguez, 19, came by her mother’s house on Aldridge Street with his new girlfriend, 19, and a couple of other people.
She told officers she and the new girlfriend got into a fight. After her mother separated them, the 19-year-old woman took off without Rodriguez, but then stopped further up the street to pick him up, the report stated.
The teenager’s mother said at that point Rodriguez got a gun out of the car, pointed it at her and then fired it three times into the air, the report stated.
According to the report, officers found shell casings in the road along with witnesses who corroborated the mom’s statement.
Rodriguez was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony and the misdemeanor charge of discharging a firearm in certain municipalities. He was booked into the Ector County jail and his bond was set at $255,000.
