Shooting of Payton Washington
| Shooting of Payton Washington | |
|---|---|
| Location | 30°20′46″N 97°23′03″W / 30.3462°N 97.3841°W 1080 US-290 Elgin, Texas, U.S. |
| Date | April 18, 2023 c. 12:00 a.m. (CST) |
Attack type | Shooting |
| Deaths | 0 |
| Injured | 2 |
| Accused | Pedro Tello Rodriguez Jr. |
| Charges | Deadly conduct |
Just after midnight on April 18, 2023, competitive cheerleaders Payton Washington and Heather Roth were shot and wounded after Roth mistakenly entered a vehicle she had thought to be hers in an H-E-B supermarket parking lot in Elgin, Texas, United States. Washington was critically wounded in the shooting.
The shooting gained notoriety for being one of four shootings that occurred in a one-week period in the US that were characterized by young people being met with gunfire after making a mistake. The cheerleaders were shot five days after the shooting of Ralph Yarl in Kansas City, Missouri, after he rang the wrong doorbell; three days after the murder of Kaylin Gillis in Hebron, New York, after she entered the wrong driveway; and earlier on the same day that Kinsley White and her parents were shot by a neighbor in Gastonia, North Carolina, when her basketball rolled into his yard.