A creator of online content was killed in Arizona on Friday when an armed man shot in a random direction during an argument between the drivers of two other vehicles, Glendale Police said.
Ashley Hermosillo, 27, who described herself as a creator of online reels and has 144,000 followers on Instagram, was not the goal of the shots around 11:45 pm, police said.
She was a passenger in a vehicle and was beaten after a driver “shot in a random direction” after people in two cars exchanged words in Camelback Road in the east direction, police said.
Jesús Preciado Dousten, 33, was arrested on Saturday and is accused of second degree murder, aggravated assault, misconduct that involves weapons and danger.
The police said in a affidavit that Doustan, who was driving a GMC truck, took out a black gun, said “Do you want any of this?” In Spanish during the argument and triggered.
Hermosillo was shot in the right eye, police wrote in the document. It was declared dead at 1 in the morning on Saturday, police said.
The witnesses reported that Doustan seemed obviously intoxicated, police said in the report.
Family members remembered with tears the pain of losing a loved one who was shot in front of them.
“I will never forget my mother’s shouts when I arrived at the hospital,” Sister Cryshan López said at a press conference on Wednesday.
Hermosillo was the mother of a 3 -year -old son, and her career in social networks, which involved cooking, was starting to take off, her family said.
“He was full of dreams, plans and objectives for his future, all of which were taken in such a cruel and meaningless way,” López said. “Our family is disconsolate beyond words.”
Dousten has what the police described in a report as an extensive criminal history, including an incident of rage on the road in Phoenix in June in which he was accused of hitting another driver on his face.
It has convictions of 2016 and 2024 for attempted theft of means of transport, a 2022 sentence for an illegal flight from the police and a 2022 conviction for resisting arrest and criminal transfer, according to judicial documents.
He was detained instead of a bail of $ 1 million, police said. Online judicial records did not mention a lawyer for him on Wednesday night.
The police said that nothing that happened in the argument between the drivers was in itself and that it was “a brief verbal exchange.”
“Why the suspect chose to shoot the weapon is still unknown,” police spokesman José Miguel Santiago said.
