CARROLLTON, Texas — A Dallas man has been charged for shooting and killing a woman while following her during a road rage incident, according to the Carrollton Police Department.
Shardrel Damon Webb has been charged with murder for shooting and killing Aurimar Iturriago in Carrollton on Saturday at 12:15 a.m., according to police.
Webb, 25, is charged with firing the shots that killed Iturriago, 21, who is from Venezuela, police say.
Carrollton police officers responded to 3535 Country Square Drive just after midnight on Saturday. This is just west of Trafalgar Square and southeast of the Carrollton Summertree neighborhood.
Police were sent because a 911 caller reported a woman had been shot. Despite life-saving measures by both responding officers and Carrollton Fire Rescue, Iturriago was pronounced dead at the scene.
Iturriago was a backseat passenger in a white Nissan that became involved in a traffic dispute with the driver and people inside a black Volkswagen Jetta which started at Marsh Lane and Keller Springs Road, according to Carrollton Police.
The cars continued southbound to the intersection of Marsh Lane and Country Square Drive. The driver in Iturriago's car told officers a man in the other car was following him while firing shots and ultimately killed Iturriago. No one else in either vehicle was injured, police say.
While responding to the shooting, officers located the Jetta and Webb nearby. Webb was arrested and initially booked into the Carrollton City Jail. He is now held in the Dallas County Jail on a $300,000 bond, according to Carrollton Police.
Friends of Iturriago told WFAA that the 21-year-old came to the U.S. from Venezuela in June and was part of a caravan of migrants that had been stuck at the southern border for two months.
Friends said Iturriago's dream was to be able to buy her mother a house with a refrigerator.
"Her dream was to help her family, she wanted to buy a home for her mom who didn’t had a house, a kitchen not even a fridge, she wanted to help her mom with that," her friends said.
"We were concerned what her family was going to think, we received her here alive and now we are sending her back to them dead, it’s painful."