The most seriously injured of two teenage cheerleaders shot in a Texas parking lot this week -- an incident in which one said she'd opened the wrong vehicle door -- is recovering from surgery as her team prepares to compete in a world championship without her, an official with her cheer company said.
Payton Washington was shot in the leg and back during the early Tuesday attack in the city of Elgin, damaging her pancreas and diaphragm and requiring her to undergo surgery to remove her ruptured spleen, Lynne Shearer, managing partner of the Woodlands Elite cheer program, told CNN on Wednesday.
Washington, according to her team, was one of two teens that police say were shot early Tuesday in the parking lot of an H-E-B supermarket in Elgin. Police used witness accounts and surveillance footage to find a suspect in the shooting, 25-year-old Pedro Tello Rodriguez Jr., according to a police affidavit.
The incident is at least the third time in recent days that young people have been shot while apparently going to the wrong place, including a 16-year-old struck in the head after ringing a doorbell in Kansas City, and a 20-year-old killed allegedly by the owner of a home whose driveway she'd inadvertently turned into.Allstar World ChampionshipRoth is expected to compete, but Washington has had to come to terms with the fact that she won't be able to go with the team, Shearer said.
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