Two men charged in a Feb. 10 shooting on Interstate 20 near Highway 18 appeared before a municipal court judge Tuesday, the Jackson Police Department said.
The department identified the suspects as 32-year-old Alejandro Macedo and 32-year-old Omar Nerio. Macedo received a $50,000 bond, including $25,000 for aggravated assault and $25,000 for shooting into an occupied vehicle, and was ordered to wear an ankle monitor. Nerio received a $750,000 bond, including $500,000 for aggravated assault and $250,000 for shooting into an occupied vehicle, police said.
Police said the shooting was reported at about 6 a.m. Feb. 10 after officers were directed to meet a victim at Interstate 20 and Springridge Road in Clinton. Detectives with the department’s Robbery/Homicide Unit said the victim was driving westbound near Highway 18 in a white Freightliner semi-tractor truck when he attempted to change lanes. The driver of another 18-wheeler pulled alongside, the drivers argued, and the passenger in the second truck pointed a weapon and fired several shots into the victim’s truck, authorities said. The victim was struck once in the shoulder and taken to a local hospital with a non-life-threatening injury.
Detectives later identified the driver and passenger of the suspect vehicle as Macedo and Nerio and obtained warrants for their arrest. Jackson police said they worked with the Grand Prairie Police Department in Grand Prairie, Texas, to locate and arrest the suspects and to obtain a search warrant for the vehicle. Both men were charged with aggravated assault and shooting into an occupied vehicle and remain in custody in Texas awaiting extradition back to Jackson.
Interstate 20 is a major east-west highway that runs across the southern United States. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Jackson Police Department at 601-960-1234 or Crime Stoppers at 601-355-TIPS (8477). This is a developing story and will be updated as more details emerge.
