AUSTIN (KXAN) — A 17-year-old Pflugerville Connally High School student arrested after a January shooting in the parking lot of the school that left a former student injured now faces additional charges.
The 17-year-old suspect previously faced a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The teen now faces an aggravated robbery charge, as well as a charge for exhibiting a firearm on campus or school bus. All three charges are felonies.
Attorney information was not yet listed online for the suspect.
Pflugerville Independent School District Interim Superintendent Steve Flores sent a letter to families on Jan. 29, letting them know about the incident. No other students or staff were injured, and Flores noted that it was believed to be an isolated incident.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit, PfISD officers responded to the high school shortly after noon after receiving a call about a person possibly being shot in the parking lot. The affidavit noted that, at first, it was only reported that the victim had been run over, but it was later learned he was also shot.
When officers went into the school, they found the victim’s brother in the front office on the phone with the victim. The affidavit said officers then spoke to the victim over the phone, and he said he was at an urgent care location in Manor and told them the name of the person who shot him and described the car the suspect was driving when it happened. The victim was ultimately transported to Dell Seton in Austin.
The victim told officers he was on campus to have lunch with a friend when he was called over to the suspect’s car. The victim said he went over to his vehicle, which was also in the parking lot, and noticed it was rifled through and approximately $550 in cash was missing from the vehicle.
According to an affidavit, the victim went to the suspect’s vehicle and saw what he believed was his cash inside. When he confronted the suspect, the victim told police he noticed an “AK-47 style pistol lying in his lap and a black handgun in his hand.”
The suspect then told him “you’re done for,” and pointed a gun toward him, according to the affidavit. The victim said he grabbed the gun and moved it away from him as the suspect stepped on the gas pedal, running over the victim, the affidavit said.
Officers asked the victim how he knew who the suspect was, and he described the suspect in detail and said the suspect dated his girlfriend’s best friend, the affidavit said.
The affidavit noted that a camera caught footage of a car leaving the school at a time consistent with the incident, and the car matched the description the victim gave.
The victim had several abrasions on his body from being dragged by the car and he had a gunshot wound on his left shoulder, according to the affidavit.
A search warrant was also filed for the teen’s residence to look for illegal firearms and accessories possibly “being used as part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.”