A 24-year-old pregnant woman told DeSoto police that a man driving a gray Honda Accord grew angry when he could not merge in front of her car near the Parkerville Road intersection, then followed her and fired a single round that struck her vehicle near the 400 block of North Hampton Road. The woman was not injured. Officers arrested 28-year-old Keenan Montrey Foreman, of Dallas, in connection with the shooting, which happened Tuesday morning at approximately 9:30 a.m.
According to the DeSoto Police Department, officers responded to the reported road-rage incident and firearm report and searched the surrounding area after the victim provided a description of the suspect, his vehicle, and his last known location. That description led officers to a person matching Foreman in the 300 block of Hanna Avenue, where they also located the suspect vehicle. Police say the suspect then fled on foot and refused officers' commands to stop before being apprehended following a brief foot pursuit.
Officers reported finding two handguns inside the suspect vehicle. Foreman was booked on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and evading on foot, according to the department's Facebook post. The DeSoto Police Department credited its Bravo shift personnel with a commendation for the arrest, and Patrol Captain G. Kirkland was named in connection with the department's account of the case. Police also noted that the victim assisted officers in locating and apprehending the suspect.
What the Charges Could Mean
Under Texas Penal Code § 22.02, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon is a second-degree felony carrying a punishment range of two to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000, according to the Texas Constitution and Statutes. The statute applies whenever a firearm is displayed or fired during an assault, regardless of whether anyone is physically hurt. Foreman's evading-on-foot charge is separately classified as a Class A misdemeanor for a first offense under Texas Penal Code § 38.04, punishable by up to a year in county jail and a fine of up to $4,000, per FindLaw.
Texas lawmakers moved last year to sharpen penalties specifically for shootings like this one. Legislation enacted in 2025 increased criminal penalties to five years to life in prison for discharging a firearm into or toward an occupied vehicle during a road rage incident, as reported by The Trace. The nonprofit newsroom's analysis found that Texas recorded 741 gun-involved road rage incidents from 2014 through 2023, resulting in 146 deaths and more than 430 injuries, with a firearm discharged in 72% of all recorded cases statewide.
A Pattern Across North Texas Highways
The DeSoto shooting adds to a string of recent road rage cases across North Texas. Weeks earlier, a driver was shot in the face following an I-20 dispute in nearby Duncanville, a case Hoodline detailed in its report on the Duncanville shooting arrest, per Hoodline. Just two days before this incident, a Garland Road traffic dispute escalated into gunfire that left a victim hospitalized. In June, a road rage confrontation at a Balch Springs intersection turned fatal, killing 20-year-old Jorge Armando Sanchez, an expectant father whose partner learned of her pregnancy shortly after his death, according to NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth's reporting on the incident.
Research from Everytown for Gun Safety found that states with permitless carry laws experience nearly triple the rate of road rage shooting victimizations compared to states with stricter firearm licensing standards. Texas's 2021 permitless carry law, House Bill 1927, allows eligible adults 21 and older to carry handguns in vehicles and public spaces without a license or permit, a policy that gun safety researchers link to the state's high rate of road rage shootings while defense attorneys emphasize constitutional carry rights when firearms are present in vehicles. Nationally, Everytown's research found 483 people were shot in road rage incidents in 2023, resulting in 118 deaths and 365 injuries — an average of one person wounded or killed every 18 hours.
DeSoto's Recent String of Violence
The 400 block of North Hampton Road sits less than two miles from the site of an April multi-victim parking lot shooting that left a 20-year-old man dead, according to WFAA-TV. DeSoto police were also investigating an 18-year-old's fatal shooting just over a week before this arrest, and the department announced yesterday it was handling a separate gunpoint robbery case in which suspects fled after a marketplace deal turned violent. Dallas County has grappled with this kind of violence for years — Dallas Police Department records show road rage incidents accounted for 200 homicides and more than 12,000 injuries over a seven-year span in the city, representing roughly 15% of all city homicides during that period, per the Oak Cliff Advocate.
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