A 50 year-old San Antonio man was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon Wednesday after shooting a landscaper multiple times for blowing leaves too close the man’s truck at an apartment complex on the city’s west side, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.
Suspect Charles Martin had gotten into an argument with the landscaping crew over the direction of the leaf blowing and then went to complained at the complex’s front office. Per KENS5 this “was not handled to the suspect’s satisfaction,” leading to the shooting and the 35 year-old victim ending up hospitalized in critical condition. Martin was taken in without further incident.
Not having the victim’s name we can’t say this was racially motivated but it sure as fuck sounds like a disgruntled Texan with a gun blasting a migrant worker for simply doing his job.