Brownsville man pleads guilty to shooting stepdaughter

He didn’t mean to shoot his stepdaughter. He meant to shoot his wife.

Now, 37-year-old Lorenzo Antonio Caballero will spend the next 12 years in a Texas prison.

Monday he was sentenced by Judge Leonel Alejandro of the 357th state District Court on one count of attempted capital murder, said Liliana Velasques, spokeswoman for Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos.

Caballero plead guilty to the Feb. 14 incident in which he shot at his 18-year-old stepdaughter while she was inside her mother’s Chevrolet Avalanche on the 3700 block of Calle Buenos Aires, according to a Brownsville police report.

The teen was hit on her left arm, according to court documents.

Police at the time of the incident reported that Caballero might be have been upset at his wife because she wasn’t spending time with him on Valentine’s Day and went looking for her.

After he spotted his wife’s SUV outside their home, he shot at the vehicle several times, according to the report.

Caballero then fled the scene and drove to Pharr where other family members lived.

Hours later, Caballero was arrested by Brownsville police investigators in conjunction with the Pharr Police Department of separate charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and fraudulent use of identifying information.

His stepdaughter was treated and released from a hospital the day of the shooting.

Tuesday morning, he was being held at the Carrizalez-Rucker Detention Center in Olmito.