HOUSTON – A mother, a father and one of their young sons were all shot during a heated highway confrontation investigators are calling road rage.
Officers said two cars were driving recklessly, or swangin', which means crisscrossing in traffic, on Highway 288 near MacGregor Way and the shooting started when the family tried to pass one of the cars.
KPRC 2 News spoke to the father, who said his family is alive because of divine intervention.
"They almost took the most precious thing from me," the victim said.
The father, who asked us to conceal his identity, was driving his wife and two sons home from the Monster Jam show at NRG Stadium. He decided to take the South Freeway to avoid traffic when the unthinkable happened.
"They were crisscrossing and then stopping then anytime a car tried to pass them. They were swerving towards those cars," the victim said.
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The father of two tried to avoid the candy paint Oldsmobiles and go around them, but his minivan was riddled with bullets.
"Before I could get all the way past them, I heard the first shot. After hearing the first shot, I heard my son scream and immediately looked over to my wife and she's clutching her hand and bleeding," he said.
The bullets hit the man's 10-year-old son in the arm and the face, and hit his wife in the wrist. He was injured across his body.
The father wants justice for his family and to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else.
"I just want to put these guys behind bars where they should be," he said.
The father drove his family to Ben Taub Hospital. He said his other son, who is 11, was able to dodge the bullets.