SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio circle of relatives is traumatized after an armed man with a violent legal history attempted to input their far-north-side home. Arrest warrants display Christopher Rodriguez, 34, additionally threatened his folks at gunpoint that very same day.
It all took place on Sept. 17, simply north of Wilderness Oak within the Summerglen group.
“It was the worst feeling in the world,” mentioned Lisa Sinn.
Sinn recollects getting a Ring notification on her telephone at about 2 p.m.
“My [three] kids were home alone with a friend,” she mentioned. “When I was going through the video to see what was going on, I saw that he was in the side and back of the yard. I knew something was wrong.”
Sinn’s home safety system captured the man strolling to the entrance door. He is visibly wearing a handgun, which he tries to tuck in his waistband after ringing the doorbell.
“I alerted my kids and I said, ‘Don’t answer the door and stay away from the windows,’” Sinn mentioned.
Sinn says her children barricaded themselves in a closet whilst she frantically known as for lend a hand.
Armed neighbors confirmed up and drove the man out of the gated neighborhood, in accordance to Sinn. But he later returned.
Arrest affidavits state Christopher Rodriguez went to his mother or father’s home and threatened to “shoot up the house” in the event that they didn’t let him in. His mom instructed police she feared for her lifestyles, so she ran out the again door. Rodriguez’s father mentioned he gave his son water and $250, then drove him to his car.
The suspect’s father additionally instructed police Rodriguez pointed a gun at his face as he exited the car.
Deputies positioned and arrested Rodriguez tomorrow. He was once charged with a prison depend of firearm ownership and two counts of annoyed attack with a dangerous weapon.
‘It’s astonishing’
Court information display the 34-year-old has a long legal history courting again greater than 15 years. Recent fees come with sexual attack, attack involving strangulation, kid endangerment and evading arrest.
A spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) instructed KENS 5 Rodriguez violated his parole again in May, in order that they issued a warrant for his arrest.
“It’s astonishing,” mentioned Pct. 3 Commissioner Grant Moody. “You have these brazen criminals in the middle of the day brandishing a gun at your doorstep. It begs some serious questions about our criminal justice system and what needs to be fixed … because, clearly, we have some problems here.”
Moody represents the precinct the place the incident took place.
“The system is broken,” he mentioned. “We are talking about this incident here right now. But over the last few weeks, we have seen five, six officer-involved shootings. Those individuals have long wrap sheets.”
Moody says it’s now not about finger-pointing.
“There’s talk of a task force to bring folks together to talk about this issue, but we need to move faster,” he mentioned. “I don’t know whether it’s a question of implementing soft on crime policies, or whether those judges aren’t getting the information they need in order to make the right bail determinations, but we need to address it either way.”
Sinn says her circle of relatives is nonetheless convalescing from the incident.
“For a while, my kids slept in the same room together,” she mentioned. “I don’t ever want to leave them home alone. It’s just hard to live in fear, even though we are trying not to live in fear.”
A TDCJ spokesperson mentioned Rodriguez was once “on an electronic monitoring system and was required to complete multiple visits with parole officers a month.”
On Friday, the Bexar County district legal professional’s administrative center launched the next observation:
“Public protection is the #1 precedence of the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office. No circle of relatives will have to have to bear the nightmare that Lisa Sinn’s circle of relatives skilled.
“Local residents must know and feel that they are safe in their homes. Criminals need to know that they will be arrested, prosecuted, and punished for threatening or otherwise attempting to violate the sanctity of another person’s home and harm a family.
“Christopher Rodriguez was once prosecuted by way of my administrative center in 2020 and sentenced to jail, however he was once launched early by way of the Texas jail system. At the time he confirmed up in entrance of the Sinn circle of relatives home, Rodriguez already had lively warrants for his arrest on more moderen crimes, however he had now not but been arrested and taken to prison.
O”ur administrative center’s assessment of Christopher Rodriguez’s circumstances might be expedited. Once the assessment of all proof in every case is finished, the circumstances might be in an instant introduced to a grand jury. Our administrative center will vigorously prosecute Christopher Rodriguez and paintings to see that he will get the punishment he merits.”
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