Heinous! Nazly Ortiz shot at a two-year-old in a fit of road rage (PHOTOS)

• Nazly Ortiz shot at a motorist and his son in a fit of road rage.
• The incident was caught on video by another Texas driver.
• The woman and a man have been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Nazly Ortiz was arrested in Texas for shooting at a vehicle with a two-year-old boy in the back seat in a fit of road rage. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) arrested her on the charge of aggravated assault with a firearm.

Along with Nazly Ortiz, 40, HCSO agents also arrested Benjamin Green, 34, who participated in a dramatic road rage incident with another driver. In the midst of her fury, the woman began shooting in broad daylight in Houston.

Nazly Ortiz began shooting in the middle of the street

According to the Texas State Penal Code the charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, like the one Nazly Ortiz and Benjamin Green face, is punishable by two to ten years in prison. Ortiz and Green are already sleeping in the Harris County Jail.

The legal documents of the case against Nazly Ortiz and Benjamin Green state the details of how the couple wound up in jail for not being able to control their anger. A video in which the woman is seen brandishing the gun in Houston is also circulating on social media.

It all started with a minor traffic incident

Shortly before 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 26, 2022, HCSO emergency number received a call about a shooting at the corner of I-45 and Farmer to Marker Road 1960, in north of the Houston metropolitan area.

According to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, a motorist on I-45 with his two-year-old son in the back seat had an altercation with a couple in a pickup truck. The couple were Nazly Ortiz and Benjamin Green.

The woman jumped out of her truck with a gun in her hand

After the confrontation, the man decided to leave the highway heading north when he noticed that the couple, Nazly Ortiz and Benjamin Green, were chasing him at full speed in their truck. The man stopped his car on the side road at a traffic light. At that moment Ortiz lost control of her actions.

Nazly Ortiz and Benjamin Green stopped their truck in front of the other man’s car at a red light in front of a car dealership. Ortiz and Green got out of their truck in a rage. The man then noticed that Nazly Ortiz was carrying a gun in her right hand.

The brutal shooting was caught on video

The victim ran through the red light to get away from the irate couple. However, Nazly Ortiz raised the gun and fired at least two shots at the man who was driving away with his son in the back seat. A shot hit the car but did not injure the occupants. The other bullet hit a vehicle from the car sales lot.

A woman who was parked behind Nazly Ortiz and Benjamin Green’s truck at the time of the shooting recorded the entire rampage on her cell phone. HCSO troopers responded to the scene of the crime and apprehended the couple as they tried to escape.

Gun crime on the rise in the United States

The shooting attack of Nazly Ortiz on the highway in Houston, Texas, is just one of thousands of incidents involving firearms. The organization National Archive on Gun Violence reported that so far in 2022, 24,771 people have already been shot to death.

As of Friday, July 22, 2022, of those people shot to death in the United States, a total of 11,307 were killed and 13,464 committed suicide. The country has already suffered 359 mass shootings, in which at least four people were shot dead in the same event.