Suspect arrested in North Richland Hills highway shooting
A Fort Worth man was in custody Monday, accused in the shooting of a motorist during a road rage dispute last month.
The victim, James Lambert, 30, of Fort Worth, suffered a gunshot wound to his calf on the evening of Sept. 28 and drove himself to the hospital, where he alerted police.
Police identified the suspect as Adam Alfred Cardinal, 26, who was arrested Thursday at his Fort Worth home.
Cardinal was in the North Richland Hills Detention Facility on Monday in lieu of $270,000 bail.
He faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, police said Monday.
The shooting was reported shortly after 8 p.m. Sept. 28 in the westbound toll lanes of Loop 820 near Rufe Snow Drive.
Through investigation and toll road information, detectives got a license plate for a possible suspect vehicle, investigator Keith Bauman said Monday.
Police went to Cardinal’s home with a search warrant last week.
“Detectives recovered a .32-caliber Charter Arms revolver and ammunition believed to have been used in the shooting,” Bauman said in a Monday news release.
Lambert told police that the suspect was driving close to his bumper, so he tapped his brakes to get the suspect to slow down.
The suspect tried to pass and Lambert made a hand gesture, police said.
Cardinal, who had a yellow Labrador retriever in the car with him, is accused of firing the gun after that. The bullet went through the driver’s side door and into Lambert’s calf, police said.
Tarrant County criminal court records indicate Cardinal had three previous arrests — two for drug possession and one for driving while intoxicated. He was no-billed on one drug possession charge in 2009, and he was sentenced to 35 days in jail for DWI in 2010. He served two years of probation for drug possession in 2011, according to county records.
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This story was originally published October 19, 2015 at 12:46 PM with the headline "Suspect arrested in North Richland Hills highway shooting."