Two Injured in Gunfire at Balcones Heights Subdivision in Maverick County, Texas

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018

The Maverick County Sheriff’s Department reports two men were injured as a result of gunfire at Balcones Heights Subdivision in southern Eagle Pass, Maverick County, Texas on Thursday, March 8, 2018, at approximately 6 A.M.

The Maverick County Sheriff’s Department noted that the victims were sitting inside an automobile when they were approached by several men and there was an argument and a male subject pulled out a gun and began firing at the two occupants in the automobile, injuring two men with one receiving a gunshot wound to his leg and another receiving a gunshot or knife wound to an arm. 

Sheriff Schmerber identified one of the victims as Raul Garcia, age 22, who received a gunshot wound to his right leg while the second victim is a male juvenile who received a gunshot or knife wound to the arm.  The assailants fled the scene of the incident.

The two injured men were taken to the Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center Emergency Room for medical treatment of their injuries. 

The case is under investigation by the Maverick County Sheriff’s Department and Texas Rangers.