Biker arrested for shooting two-year-old in anger at the wheel: police
Inset: Jason County (Dallas County). Background: The street where a two-year-old girl was shot in a DUI incident (Google Maps).
A Dallas man is behind bars after a 2-year-old girl was shot and killed in an extreme bout of road rage and is now fighting for her life, Texas police said.
Jason Cain, 50, is charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of intentional aggravated assault of a child, according to Dallas County Jail records.
During a subsequent investigation, Nazi symbols and a cache of weapons were found in the defendant’s house, police claim.
The incident occurred around 8 p.m. Sunday evening on Sweetwater Drive in east Dallas near the Forest Hills neighborhood.
“The preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect, 50-year-old Jason Cain, fired shots at a vehicle at this location, striking a two-year-old girl,” a Dallas Police spokesperson told Law&Crime. “The girl was transported to a local hospital, treated and released.”
On the night in question, a family was on their way to complete a Door Dash delivery when they encountered a man on a motorcycle, police said, citing Dallas-based Fox affiliate KDFW.
According to police, the family later told investigators that the man had not turned on his lights and was driving in the dark.
The car swerved to avoid the motorcyclist and honked its horn, police say, and then an argument broke out between the two drivers, according to an affidavit obtained by Dallas-based ABC affiliate WFAA.
The man on the motorcycle then turned around, followed the family and fired two shots at their car, according to police. The girl was hit in the stomach — after which a bullet ricocheted off her ribs and lodged in her diaphragm. One bullet was reportedly left in the girl’s body because doctors decided attempts to remove it could do more harm than good, the affidavit states.
A woman who lives on the street in question heard the shots and came outside to see what was going on.
“I walked over to the car, it turned around and stopped next to me,” she told KDFW. “And the mother, I assume, jumped out of the passenger seat and yelled, ‘They shot my baby!’ twice.”
The woman said she saw the toddler covered in blood and told the family to go to the hospital immediately while she called 911. Moments later, patrol cars raced to the scene.
Police said they later identified Cain using a combination of witness statements and video evidence of the shooting.
Several people reportedly told officers they saw a motorcycle with a sidecar and a dog in the sidecar following a gray sedan. Then, these witnesses said, they saw the motorcyclist fire two shots.
This description matched almost exactly a well-known person on the street in question.
“I’m completely baffled that this happened and that it has anything to do with my neighbors,” Cain’s neighbor told WFAA. “They’re great. He gets on his Harley and takes his dog in the sidecar and they kind of go on a little ride around the block.”
According to the affidavit, police executing a search warrant at the defendant’s Sweetwater home allegedly found “numerous satanic and Nazi symbols,” rifles and a pistol.
The woman who called 911 said she never thought one of her neighbors would shoot a small child.
“All I can think about is what mom’s voice sounded like,” the witness told KDFW. “And how the little baby just wasn’t moving, wasn’t crying, and I really thought it was dead.”
The girl’s condition is said to be stable.
The defendant is currently being held in the North Tower of the Dallas County Jail and has a total bail amount of $850,000.
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