Drive-By Shooting Suspect Detained in Eagle Pass, Texas
By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018
The Maverick County Sheriff’s Department reported receiving a 911 emergency telephone call from a resident at 1408 Mirasol Drive in Seco Mines near Eagle Pass, Texas on Saturday, February 17, 2018, concerning a drive-by shooting by unknown assailants of their parked 2012 White Nissan Sentra.
The assailants fled the scene of the drive-by shooting scene, but witnesses reported seeing a gray van with a broken rear windows and paper license plates fleeing the scene.
Maverick County Sheriff Deputies located several shell casings at the drive-by shooting scene and placed a lookout bulletin for the gray van to all law enforcement agencies.
An Eagle Pass Police Department Officer patrolling saw a gray van satisfying the lookout bulletin and detained it near the intersection of Garrison Street and Colorado Street. A female driver was detained by the Maverick County Sheriff’s Department for investigation.
The Maverick County Sheriff’s Department Detective Division is investigating the drive-by shooting incident at 1408 Mirasol Drive in Seco Mines area of Eagle Pass, Texas.
No persons were injured in the drive-by shooting except the damage to the 2012 White Nissan Sentra.
Sheriff Tom Schmerber stated people are prohibited from firing firearms in residential areas as people may get hurt or killed. Schmerber stated the Maverick County Sheriff’s Department is investigating this serious offense.
