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Shots fired after man 'brake checks' Lexus in Sunnyvale road-rage incident

Dallas County sheriff's deputies were called to East Tripp and Jobson roads, near Samuell Farm Park North, around 4 p.m. after shots were reported.

Updated at 6:37 p.m.: Revised to include quote from driver.

Shots were fired during a road-rage incident in Sunnyvale on Tuesday, and authorities are looking for surveillance footage that may have captured the event.

Dallas County sheriff's deputies were called to East Tripp and Jobson roads, near Samuell Farm Park North, around 4 p.m. after gunfire was reported.

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A driver involved in the incident, Tony Aguilar, fled to Sunnyvale's Town Hall. He told deputies that he had been eastbound on Tripp when a maroon four-door Lexus sedan with tinted windows came up fast behind him.

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Aguilar said he "brake-checked" the Lexus, then heard three or four gunshots. The Lexus then moved onto the grass on the right side of the road and came up beside him before passing him on the left.

He told deputies that a small black SUV also sped past him on the left and that he wasn't sure which vehicle the shots had been fired from.

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Deputies noted that Aguilar's Honda had a bullet hole in its trunk and that its right rear tire was flat. They found two shell casings along the 200 block of East Tripp.

Aguilar, a Dallas firefighter for 25 years, told WFAA-TV that he felt lucky once he saw the bullet hole in his trunk.

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"I realized how fortunate I was that this bullet hadn't been another inch higher, or else it possible could've struck me in the back," he said.

Anyone with video footage from that area between 3:30 and 5 p.m. Tuesday is asked to call the Sheriff's Department at 214-749-8641.