Teens accused of shooting blow darts at Walmart shoppers
TOMBALL, Texas — Two Tomball teens accused of shooting blow darts at Walmart customers are now facing charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
One of the victims, Eva Cook, said the dart looked like a metal needle with a 4-inch metal tip. She was wearing a heavy coat when it hit her in the shoulder.
"I turned around, and it was hanging out right there," Cook said.
Cook, 72, was riding a motorized scooter out of the Walmart on Tomball Parkway on Jan. 16 when she was hit.
After loading her groceries into her car, Cook took the dart to a Walmart security guard who said to her, "Oh, this happened again. Another person has been shot."
Then just five minutes after Cook was hit, a 10-year-old boy also was struck.
"He had gotten hit I think in the elbow area, and it was bleeding," Cook said. "He was a pretty strong little boy. He was aggravated that it hurt."
Walmart security video showing part of the truck's license tag led Harris County Sheriff's deputies to Clay Vittrup, a Tomball High School graduate, and Cameron Perry, both 18.
According to Vittrup's father, his son was driving through the parking lot and didn't know his friend was going to use a blow dart gun. Both teens deny owning the blow dart gun and using it. Both live close to the Walmart and to Eva Cook.
Cook said wagging her finger, "My first though was being a grandmother, I wanted to get those boys and go, 'Do you know, do you have any idea what you just did?'"