Texas cheerleaders shot after opening door to the wrong car in parking lot 

Two Texas teenagers were shot after they accidentally opened the door to a vehicle thinking it was theirs in a parking lot in Austin on Tuesday. 

Officers responded to a call at around midnight at an H-E-B supermarket parking lot. When they arrived they found two teenage girls in a car who had been shot, police said. One of the girls was rushed to a hospital by helicopter, where she remains in critical condition after bullets hit her pancreas and diaphragm. The other was treated at the scene. 

The shooting happened after a girl opened the door to a car in the parking lot, thinking it was hers. To her surprise, a man was sitting in the passenger seat. They both apologized to the man and returned to their car. 

The man proceeded to get out of the car and approached the girls in their vehicle. One of them rolled down the window to apologize again when the man opened fire, shooting the two girls. 

“He just threw his hands up, and then he pulled out a gun and he just started shooting at all of us,” said Heather Roth, one of the victims.

The man who shot the girls, identified as Petro Tello Rodriguez, 25, was arrested by police on Tuesday, the Elgin Police Department said in a news release. 

Tello is being accused of deadly conduct with a firearm, a third-degree felony. He is being held on a $500,000 bond. 

Roth and her friend, Payton Washington, are from the Auston area and were carpooling to a cheerleading gym in Oak Ridge North, in Houston, about three times a week. Roth is a college student, while the other girls in the car are still in high school.