A Dallas man says he feared for his life when a stranger approached him on a running trail and shot him multiple times. He says the man shot him in his hip and shoulder. But he says the man was aiming for his head.

A Dallas man says he feared for his life when a stranger approached him on a running trail and shot him multiple times. He says the man shot him in his hip and shoulder. But he says the man was aiming for his head. The Brief

The victim says this was a morning exercise routine turned into a random shooting.

35-year-old Terrance Williams says he was exercising on a trail in between Singing Hills and Glendale Parks in Oak Cliff last Monday when a stranger who asked him for directions on the trail the day before approached him again.

“He looked at me, and he said, ‘This is going to be the last day that you see me.’ And it was confusing, and I didn’t know what it meant,” he recalled. "So I just said okay, and I kept walking.

Williams says it quickly turned even more bizarre.

“He kind of went behind the bushes, came out, went behind the bushes, came out again,” he said. “And when he came out the second time, he had a mask pulled up over his face, covering half of his face, with his hand in his left pocket. And that’s when he was like really briskly approaching me. But then he pulled out the gun, and I screamed and ran.”

Williams was shot in his right hip. And while lying wounded on the ground, Williams thought his life was about to end.

“He stood over me. He put the gun out over my face. It was pointed in my face, and I was just looking up at him, and he said, ‘You’re not dead. Don’t pretend to be dead. But you’re going to be dead now,’” he recalled. “And like a headshot, just fired two shots. And I don’t know if it was the grace of God who curved the bullets, my guardian angel, I don’t know if it was bad aim. I don’t know what it was, but he had that gun pointed at my head. One bullet hit my shoulder, and the other bullet hit the pavement.”

Williams says the shooter left.

  • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 hours ago

    How the fuck do you miss at point-blank range when your target is lying on the ground? I guess he’s lucky that this fuckwit was completely incompetent on top of being insane.

  • octopus_inkEnglish
    361·
    8 hours ago

    Anyone with information on the case is urged to contact the Dallas Police Department.

    The Source

    Information from this article comes from the Dallas Police Department and an interview with the victim.

    So there’s a black man shot in Texas by a mysterious assailant. He spoke with this man two times (at least) before the man put a mask on and shot him. He surely communicated these details to the police and to the person who interviewed him about this article.

    Police are urging people to come forward with any information they might have that could help identify the shooter.

    But I don’t even know the skin color of the man who shot him (though I have my guesses) because the FOX news article felt this was something that didn’t need to be included.

    I don’t live in the area but if I did and I was trying to spot this man, it would be good to have some physical description wouldn’t it?

    It’s almost if, and I know this sounds crazy, Fox News in Dallas, Texas doesn’t really give a shit about helping a black man find his attempted murderer, and/or they don’t want to print “black man is shot by white man for no reason while jogging.”

    Am I making some assumptions? Yes I am. Because the lack of detail in this article requires me to do so.