A man shot and wounded two cheerleaders in a Texas supermarket car park after one of them said she mistakenly got into his car thinking it was her own.The shooting in Elgin, east of Austin, happened early Tuesday (local time) in a car park that serves as a carpool pickup spot for members of the Woodlands Elite Cheer Company, team owner Lynne Shearer said.
Heather Roth, one of four team members transferring rides in the car park after practice, said she got out of her friend’s car and into a car she thought was hers, but there was a stranger in the passenger seat. She panicked and got back into her friend’s car, but the man got out of his vehicle and approached.
She said she tried to apologise through her friend’s car window, but the man threw up his hands, pulled out a gun and opened fire.Roth was grazed by a bullet and was treated at the scene, police said. Her teammate Payton Washington, 18, was shot in the leg and back. 
“Payton opens the door, and she starts throwing up blood,” Roth said.The attack comes days after two high-profile shootings that occurred after victims went to mistaken addresses. In one case, a Black teen was shot and wounded after going to the wrong Kansas City, Missouri, home to pick up his younger brothers. In the other, a woman looking for a friend’s house in upstate New York was shot and killed after the car she was riding in mistakenly went to the wrong address.
The latest in a string of recent US shootings apparently is sparked by someone showing up at the wrong place.
