Two people went to the hospital with wounds that were not life-threatening after a 33-year-old man shot at them near a store in Central City on Aug. 20, according to Corpus Christi police.
Corpus Christi police say that at 6:16 p.m., they were flagged down at the intersection of Ayers Street and Arlington Drive in reference to a shooting, according to a news release written by Corpus Christi Police Department senior officer Antonio Contreras.
A man who was wounded at the scene told the officers that the offender, now identified as Ernesto Mondragon, left a nearby store and shot at him.
Afterward, Mondragon walked across Ayers Street, police said.
As officers were talking to the wounded man, they could hear shots being fired from across the street, they said.
Officers crossed Ayers Street and saw Mondragon carrying a handgun and gave him orders to put down his weapon.
Mondragon complied, and police took him into custody without incident, they said.
Police say that medics took two victims to a local hospital.
Police contacted several people who were wounded, as well as witnesses, during the investigation and determined that Mondragon was involved in a disturbance with someone earlier when he walked out of the store and began to fire his weapon recklessly.
Police did not immediately confirm whether the earlier disturbance happened inside of the store.
Mondragon faces charges of nine counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He was being held in the Nueces County Jail on $100,000 bail for each count as of Aug. 21.
Police did not say whether the shooting was a spontaneous act of violence or if the people involved know each other.
This is a developing story. More information will be reported when it is available.
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