Texas mom shot dead while taking daughter to get prom dress

An innocent Texas mom was killed when she was hit by a stray bullet from a daytime gun battle while driving one of her daughters to get her prom dress.

Mom of three Ana Moreno, 39, appears to have been caught up in a shootout between passengers in two other vehicles near a Dallas mall Saturday, according to cops.

Three men were also left fighting for their lives.

Moreno’s daughter Amy Rodriguez, 18, told Fox 4 that they were heading to pick up her prom dress when they heard “really loud gunshots, and really close to us.”

“I told her to keep going,” she said, tearing up as she recalled her mom signaling at her throat that she was not able to continue.

“We crashed … she fell on me, and when I looked at her I [saw] blood — and I knew,” she said.

“I didn’t care about prom. I didn’t care about anything. I just wanted her to be OK,” she said of her mom, who was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.

“It’s hard. I just still can’t believe it.”


Mom of three Ana Moreno, 39, who died after being hit by a stray bullet in the shootout Saturday.
Ana Moreno, 39, appears to have been caught up in a shootout between passengers in other cars Saturday.
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Witness Jacob Faz told Fox 4 that he was driving past with his wife when he pulled over after appeals from the shot mom’s distraught daughter.

The teen “looked panicked. She was trying to get somebody to help her mom. She was scared,” Faz said.

There was nothing he could do to help Moreno. “She wasn’t breathing. I checked for a pulse,” he said.


Cones mark the bullets fired Saturday.
Three men are also fighting for their lives after the 4p.m. gun battle.
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Moreno’s other daughter, Michelle Rodriguez, 17, said their mom “was so excited to see [Amy] get ready for prom.”

“She was excited for everything. She was so excited for us to graduate, that’s all she wanted,” she said of her mom. Moreno also had a son, according to a fundraiser seeking $15,000 for funeral expenses.

“She didn’t deserve it. She didn’t,” Michelle Rodriguez said.

Three men remain in critical condition after the same shooting, cops told Fox 4, without elaborating if they were bystanders or suspects in the shooting.

No arrests had been made, police said.