Nicholas Dagostino hated female drivers, authorities say, so much so that he shot them while they were driving.
Police in Texas linked Dagostino to two recent shootings in which women said they were shot in the arm. Both incidents happened during the day, within a few miles of each other in the Katy area of Harris County, west of Houston. And both involved a suspect — Dagostino — who claimed that he shot the women in self-defense, according to criminal complaints.
But social media ramblings indicate that Dagostino “held a very dim view of women,” thought female drivers were “incompetent,” and that their sole purpose “is to give birth to male children,” investigators wrote in court documents.
Dagostino, 29, is facing two felony charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
His defense attorney, Kenneth Mingledorff, said that statements police made about Dagostino’s hatred of women are merely assumptions.
“There’s a lot being said. Nobody knows that for a fact,” Mingledorff told The Washington Post on Saturday. “I’ve seen no evidence of that at all. A lot of assumptions are being made, and we’ll work through all that.”
He added that his client needs psychological help, though he did not elaborate.