Orlando Police: Driver crashes, shoots own vehicle, shoots at witness calling 911
Man accused of shooting at own car, then woman’s car
A man is accused of shooting into his own car and shooting at a woman inside another car after he crashed near the intersection of Colonial Drive and Mills Avenue.
ORLANDO, Fla. - The Orlando Police Department took a man into custody on Thursday after a bizarre incident involving him shooting his own vehicle and then at a woman who just happened to be driving near-by.
Police responded to the area of Fern Creek Avenue and East Colonial Drive after receiving a call about a shooting. Officers say a witness told them she saw a white man with a beard crash into a vehicle near the intersection, and that the man then started shooting at his own vehicle with a gun.
According to Orlando Police, the woman was just waiting at a traffic light ahead of the commotion and tried to get away.
"For her own safety, she put her vehicle in reverse, reversed over a fence, and then back into a construction site," said OPD Sgt. David Baker.
Police say then, for some reason, the man noticed the woman back into the construction area and started walking toward her; firing the gun now at her car. Sgt. Baker said the woman ducked down under the dash of her car to avoid being hit and was ultimately ok.
Officers located the suspect, Ricardo Leon Garcia, walking in a nearby parking lot on East Colonial Drive with the gun still in hand. He was taken into custody without incident.
According to a police report, Garcia told officers he'd dropped acid earlier in the day that he just started shooting after his car accident.
Garcia is charged with attempted 2nd degree murder, shooting at an occupied vehicle, open carry of a firearm, and resisting arrest.
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