Toddler Shot In Suspected Road Rage Incident While Delivering Food With Family

A Texas man is in custody after allegedly shooting a 2-year-old girl during a suspected road rage incident in a Dallas neighborhood on Sunday night.

The child was accompanying her parents on a DoorDash delivery around 8 p.m. when she was shot in the backseat following a confrontation with a passing motorcyclist, multiple news outlets reported citing Dallas police.

The family told police that they had swerved to avoid hitting the man, who they said was riding with his lights off in the middle of the road, and both vehicles honked at one another. The motorcyclist allegedly then followed them, yelling, before pulling out a gun and firing into their car.

One of the bullets struck the child in her abdomen, bounced off a rib and became lodged in her diaphragm, WFAA reported citing a copy of the police affidavit. The child was taken to a hospital and was last listed as being in stable condition, police told the station.

Neighbor Jessica Huseman told reporters that she went outside upon hearing gunfire and saw the child covered in blood in the vehicle’s backseat.

“The mom, I assume, jumped out of the passenger side and said, ‘They shot my baby! They shot my baby!’” she told station Fox 4 News.

“The way that mom’s voice sounded really just ... is all I can think about,” she said. “And the way that that little baby… she just wasn’t moving, wasn’t crying, and I really thought she was gone.”

Suspect Jason Cain, 50, allegedly fled the scene but later returned to speak with police, telling them that the shooting was likely related to drug dealers down the street.

Huseman said Cain, whom she identified as her neighbor, told her the same story about drug dealers likely being to blame.

Cain was identified by several witnesses as the shooter and arrested on one count of injury to a child and three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. A search of his home found multiple firearms, including automatic weapons and many satanic and Nazi symbols, WFAA reported citing the police affidavit.

Online records show that Cain is being held on a $850,000 bond, with no attorney listed as representing him.