Dallas man shoots 2-year-old girl during road rage incident, police say
Man charged with shooting 2-year-old girl
Police say a family on a Door Dash delivery turned onto a street where a man was riding his motorcycle. They swerved to avoid hitting him and honked. Police say he then turned around, pulled out a gun and fired into their car, hitting a 2-year-old girl in the backseat.
DALLAS - Dallas police arrested a 50-year-old man for shooting a 2-year-old girl over the weekend.
Court documents reveal it may have been a case of road rage in a Far East Dallas neighborhood.
The shooting happened around 8 p.m. Sunday on Sweetwater Drive near Interstate 30 and Ferguson Road.
Dallas police said a family on a Door Dash delivery turned onto a street where 50-year-old Jason Cain was riding his motorcycle.
They swerved to avoid hitting him and honked. He then turned around, pulled out a gun, and fired into their car.
A 2-year-old girl who was in the family’s backseat was shot.
(Photo: Dallas County Jail)
Two loud pops forced Jessica Huseman to step outside of her home in the neighborhood.
"I got over to the car, and it whipped around and then stopped next to me," she recalled. "And the mom, I assume, jumped out of the passenger side and said, ‘They shot my baby! They shot my baby!'"
Huseman saw the little girl in the backseat covered in blood. She told the family to go straight to the hospital while she called 911.
Soon, dozens of Dallas police squad cars swarmed Huseman’s street.
"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."
According to arrest documents, multiple witnesses told police they saw a motorcycle with a sidecar that had a dog in it following a gray sedan around 8 p.m. They said they saw the motorcyclist pull out a handgun and fire two shots.
Police said witnesses identified Cain, who lives in the neighborhood, as the shooter.
Before witnesses identified him, police said Cain spoke to officers near the scene. He told them that the "drug dealers that were involved in the shooting were down the street."
It’s the same story Huseman heard from Cain.
"He said, ‘Oh yeah, that was me on the motorcycle. But I don’t think I saw anything,’" she recalled. "And then he told me that there were ‘drug dealers’ that live on the next street, and I think he was attempting to imply that they had done it."
Detectives interviewed the family. They said they were delivering a DoorDash order when they saw Cain in the middle of the street without his lights on. They swerved to avoid him, and the two honked at each other.
The family told police Cain proceeded to follow their car around the neighborhood and shout out at them.
"I didn’t assume that one of my neighbors had shot a baby," Huseman said.
The police documents detail that when officers arrested Cain at his home, he resisted at first but ultimately complied.
Police said they also obtained video evidence of the shooting.
When police searched Cain’s home, they found multiple firearms, including automatic weapons and many satanic and Nazi symbols.
"I hope that they do get the justice that they need because that was horrific. That was really horrific," Huseman said.
Police said the little girl is stable, but her condition in the hospital is unknown.
Cain remains in the Dallas County jail charged with one count of injury to a child and three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. His bond hasn’t been set yet.