Detectives say automated camera data was one part of a three-week investigation into a road rage shooting that wounded a 20-year-old driver.
DUNCANVILLE, Texas — Automated license plate reader cameras helped Duncanville police develop leads and identify a man accused of shooting a driver during a road rage encounter on Interstate 20, an investigation that ended with a SWAT-assisted arrest three weeks later.
Police said Flock automated license plate reader cameras were used alongside witness interviews and evidence collection as detectives investigated the July 28 shooting. Those efforts led authorities to identify Reo Bowman Jr., 58, as the alleged shooter. Detectives and Duncanville SWAT officers arrested Bowman on Aug. 18 while executing a search warrant. He faces two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
The shooting was reported at about 7:55 p.m. in the 600 block of East Interstate 20. Police said two people traveling in one vehicle became involved in a road rage incident with the driver of a Kia sedan. The other driver allegedly fired a single round into their vehicle before leaving westbound on I-20.
The woman driving the targeted vehicle was hit. Police initially described her wound as a non-life-threatening injury to the face and said she was treated at Central Methodist Hospital before being released. The passenger traveling with her was not injured.
FOX 4 later identified the driver as 20-year-old Jayden Shastid and reported that she required surgery after the bullet became lodged in her throat. Shastid told the television station that her vehicle’s emergency braking system caused her to brake in front of the other car. She said she tried to explain what had happened before the shooting occurred.
Shastid said she did not expect investigators to make an arrest. Police have not released a full account of the evidence used to connect Bowman to the shooting, but the department said detectives relied on several investigative tools rather than the camera system alone.
Flock cameras are automated license plate readers designed to capture information about passing vehicles. In announcing the arrest, Duncanville police said investigators used the camera system to identify and follow up on multiple leads. The department did not release the specific images, plate data or vehicle movements investigators reviewed in this case.
The available police statement also does not say whether a weapon was recovered or describe what investigators found when detectives and SWAT officers carried out the Aug. 18 search warrant. Police said Bowman was taken into custody without incident at about 8:37 a.m.
Authorities charged Bowman with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which police described as second-degree felonies. The charges are accusations and do not establish guilt. Bowman was listed as booked in the Dallas County Jail in the latest published reporting on the case.
The arrest closed the identification phase of the police investigation but moved the allegations into the criminal court process. No trial date or other future court date was included in the public materials reviewed, and authorities have not announced additional charges in connection with the July 28 shooting.
Author note: Last updated August 21, 2026.