Image : Harris County Sheriff’s Office A Texas man who allegedly shot and injured several women drivers has been accused of targeting them because he believes only men should be allowed to get behind the wheel. Advertisement According to the Star-Telegram, Katy resident Nicholas Dagostino, 29, has been hit with charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in two recent separate incidents, in which he allegedly shot women drivers. Dagostino spent six weeks behind bars after allegedly shooting a 39-year-old woman driving in Katy in July; he posted bond last Tuesday, but was arrested on Thursday for allegedly shooting another woman driver in the arm as she left a gas station in Katy in March. Police say Dagostino has confessed to shooting as many as five women drivers in the area, and that he specifically targets women because he doesn’t believe they should be permitted to drive. According to a local ABC News affilliate, court documents say Dagostino wrote a number of Facebook posts in which he reportedly “rants and rambles on about female motorists and how incompetent they are and that their sole purpose is to give birth to male children.” “It’s unspeakable, unspeakable,” the unnamed husband of the most recent shooting victim told ABC News. “Evil and very scary. It’s worst case scenario, as far as danger to the entire community.” Dagostino’s new bond has been set at $400,000 for two charges of aggravated assault with a weapon. Investigators say the bond is specifically high because he “presents a continuing threat to the community and in particular, to female motorists in Katy.” His attorney told reporters Dagostino’s family is “very, very sorry for any problems or pain this has caused anyone.” Per criminal complaints, Dagostino claims he shot the two women in self defense.<doc-sep>A Texas man has allegedly been shooting female drivers near his home because of a “dim view of women” and a belief that female drivers are “incompetent, police said. The man, 29-year-old Nicholas D’Agostino, was arrested Thursday for allegedly shooting a female driver in the arm. Just three days earlier, he had been released on bond for an alleged July shooting of another woman in the arm while she was driving by a gas station near his house. He has admitted to five separate road rage incidents over the past few months, court filings show. Advertisement After the July arrest, he had told authorities that he had shot the woman in July out of “self-defense” because she had “swerved twice into his lane,” according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Advertisement Advertisement The woman, though, told investigators she was simply driving to the car wash when she heard a loud noise, saw her window crack, and felt a searing pain in her arm and chest. The bullet had torn through her arm and pierced her chest, reaching just short of her heart. Court documents also said surveillance video showed a green Ford Explorer drive by the woman’s car with a window open, followed by a quick movement and a flash, according to BuzzFeed News. The Thursday arrest was in connection to a March incident just a few miles away in Katy, Texas. The woman told authorities she was leaving a Shell gas station when she heard a noise and felt an intense pain in her right arm. She looked around and saw a man “looking at her as he drove by,” apparently “looking to see if he had hit her.” Again, D’Agostino told authorities that he was acting in self-defense, making the argument that the woman had intentionally “swerved at him” and that he fired the gun “to stop what he perceived as a threat.” Advertisement A Harris County sheriff’s detective told a judge Thursday that D’Angelo had ranted on Facebook about female drivers and made the argument that “their sole purpose in life is to give birth to male children.” Investigators say in court documents that Facebook posts indicate he was “randomly” targeting women, an assertion D’Angelo’s attorney contests. D’Angelo’s attorney told BuzzFeed News there is “absolutely no evidence that he hates women” and that his client has mental health issues and is getting help. Authorities believe he attempted to shoot another woman in Katy in another incident as well, but missed. He is now facing two felony charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.<doc-sep>According to local reports, a Texas man named Nicholas D'Agostino, 29, has been targeting and shooting female drivers in Katy, Texas. A Harris County prosecutor found social media posts where D'Agostino degraded women and, specifically, female drivers. The prosecutor told the court on Thursday, "He rants and rambles about female motorists and how incompetent they are, and how their sole purpose in life is to give birth to male children,” according to local news outlet KHOU 11. D'Agostino was first arrested and charged with aggravated assault on July 20th for an incident on July 10th, where he allegedly shot a woman as she was driving to a car wash, with the bullet reportedly coming within millimeters of her heart. He was then released on $75,000 bail, but was quickly arrested again for an incident on March 7th, where he allegedly shot a woman in the arm out of "self defense," alleging that she swerved toward him; the victim came forward after seeing reports of his first arrest. D'Agostino is now being charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and is being held on a $250,000 bail. During his July arrest, he also confessed to five other incidents where he allegedly shot at other people on the road. ABC13 reports that the prosecutor says D'Agostino is a threat to the community and particularly to female drivers. Madison Feller Madison is a staff writer at ELLE.com, covering news, politics, and culture. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io<doc-sep>
Nicholas D’Agostino. Photo: Harris County Sheriff’s Office A 29-year-old Texas man is in jail for allegedly targeting and shooting female drivers because he believes they are “incompetent.” Prosecutors argued during his arraignment that Nicholas D’Agostino has a “dim view of women,” KHOU11 reports, and that in his social-media posts he “rants and rambles about female motorists and how incompetent they are, and how their sole purpose in life is to give birth to male children,” D’Agostino was arrested last week for the March 7 shooting of a woman who was driving out of a gas station near Katy, Texas. The woman told police she was pulling out of a Shell station when she heard a loud noise and felt a sharp pain in her arm, but didn’t realize she had been shot until later. When he was caught, deputies say D’Agostino claimed he acted in “self-defense,” and that the woman had swerved toward him. Last week’s arrest came less than three days after he was released on $75,000 bail for the July 10 shooting of a 39-year-old woman who was driving to a car wash near Katy. The bullet in that case went through the woman’s arm and lodged in her chest, millimeters from her heart. Once again, D’Agostino claimed her shot the woman in self-defense after she swerved into his lane twice. In a news conference after his arrest in July, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez told reporters that D’Agostino admitted to being involved “in at least five other similar situations in which he discharged his firearm at another vehicle.” The victim of the July shooting told ABC13 that the days when D’Agostino was out on bond were “the most frightening 48 hours of our lives,” and that she and her family left her home for fear he would find them and harm them, only returning once he had been arrested again. D’Agostino is currently facing two felony charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and is being held on $250,000 bail. His lawyer denies the prosecution’s claim that D’Agostino hates women, and says his client is seeking help for mental-health issues. “[D’Agostino] poses a continuing threat to the community,” the prosecutor argued. “Specifically female motorists in Katy, where both of these incidents have occurred.”