Man allegedly tries to abduct teen in road rage incident

A San Antonio man was arrested after a violent road rage incident Thursday in which he’s accused of terrorizing three women on the Northwest Side.

Edward Hernandez Aguilar was charged with four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, resisting arrest, evading arrest and failure to stop and give information. He is being held on $323,500 bail.

Soon after the three women left their residence around 9:30 a.m. to go to a doctor’s appointment, they saw Aguilar’s brown Dodge pickup start following and honking at them, an affidavit supporting Aguilar’s arrest said. The women recognized Aguilar as a neighbor whom they didn’t know well.

As the women drove in a Ford Expedition SUV onto Loop 410, they noticed that the Dodge pickup was still following them, the affidavit said. Near the Evers Road exit, the truck cut off the SUV and abruptly stopped, forcing the SUV’S driver to stop. A tow truck behind the SUV started honking its horn, so the SUV driver maneuvered around the pickup onto the shoulder.

But as the Expedition drove off, the Dodge got in front of the SUV again and forced it to stop again, this time with no way around the pickup as there was a concrete barrier in the way.

At that point, the affidavit said, Aguilar approached the SUV and the driver lowered her window to ask what he wanted. Aguilar pushed down the window all the way and demanded that they give him the 17-yearold who was in back seat. When they refused, Aguilar attempted to open the door.

As one of the women struggled to keep the door closed, the 17-year-old struck Aguilar with a fishing pole through the open window. Aguilar, while bleeding from the blows, grabbed the fishing pole and threw it on the ground.

Aguilar then returned to his truck, put it in reverse and rammed it into the SUV, according to the affidavit. The women said Aguilar then went to the back of his truck and appeared to be looking for something in a toolbox.

Another driver stopped to help, waving a tire iron and demanding that Aguilar leave the women alone, but he was ignored, the affidavit said.

The women managed to drive away, but as they did so, Aguilar threw a metal object at the SUV, shattering the back window.

The women drove to a nearby gas station where they met Bexar County deputies.

Aguilar was arrested shortly after by Castle Hills police.