Heather Roth,one of four team members in the car park after practice,said she got out of her friend’s car and into a car she thought was hers,but there was a stranger in the passenger seat,KTRK-TV reported. She said she panicked and got back into her friend’s car,but the man got out of his vehicle and approached. She said she tried to apologise through her friend’s car window,but the man threw up his hands,pulled out a gun and opened fire.
Roth was grazed by a bullet and was treated at the scene,police said. Her teammate Payton Washington,18,was shot in the leg and back.
“Payton opens the door,and she starts throwing up blood,” Roth said.
Washington was flown to a hospital in critical condition. Doctors had to remove part of Washington’s spleen,KTRK-TV reported.
A witness to the shooting said the shooter fled the scene after the attack,police said.