A Hays County Sheriff's Office investigator walks down Suffield Drive near Buda with a young woman who identified herself to a reporter as the sister-in-law of a woman shot in the Hillside Terrace neighborhood Monday afternoon. PHOTO by BRAD ROLLINS
Saucedo
by BRAD ROLLINS
Authorities arrested a man on Monday they say shot his wife in the face and hand during an argument at their home in the hardscrabble Hillside Terrace neighborhood near Buda.
Anthony Saucedo, 25, is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony punishable by two to 20 years in prison. He was arrested later that evening in the Cracker Barrel parking lot in San Marcos and remains in the Hays County Jail.
Transported to University Medical Center at Brackenridge in Austin, the woman is expected to recover, said her sister, Laura Garcia. Her condition is not known.
Hays County/San Marcos SWAT swarmed the Suffield Drive house at about 4 p.m. March 7 after getting a 911 call from a woman who said she had been shot and that her two children were still in the house with Saucedo.
Believing that Saucedo was barricaded inside the house, officers set up a perimeter and prepared for what appeared to be a standoff. As school buses brought neighborhood children back home, residents streamed into the streets, pressing against police tape.
But Saucedo had apparently already left to take the children to stay with relatives in San Marcos, Garcia said. When deputies searched the house at about 6 p.m., it was empty. Officers later found the children safe at a home in San Marcos.
Saucedo has been charged with more than a dozen offenses in Hays County, including marijuana possession, evading arrest and unlawful carrying of a weapon, court records show. He apparently served time for some of the convictions, but details of his incarceration were not immediately available.
