---
title: "Texas Man Shoots ‘Incompetent’ Female Drivers, Claims Self-Defense"
description: "D'Agostino reportedly raved on social media about how he believes a woman's purpose is ‘to give birth to male children.’"
date: "2018-08-27"
modified: "2019-07-29"
authors:
  - name: "James Gilboy"
    job_title: "Contributing Writer"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/james-gilboy"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/23164/texas-man-shoots-incompetent-female-drivers-claims-self-defense"
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  - "News"
tags:
  - "bad driving"
  - "Crime"
  - "Guns"
  - "Texas"
  - "Weird News"
  - "women"
---

# Texas Man Shoots ‘Incompetent’ Female Drivers, Claims Self-Defense

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A Texas man has been arrested for shooting women he accuses of being "incompetent" drivers, a behavior he attempted to excuse by claiming [self-defense](<https://www.dallastexaspersonalinjurylawyers.com/who-we-are/>). The Harris County Sheriff's Office arrested 29-year-old Nicholas Martin D'Agostino in connection to two women being shot through their car windows while driving in Katy, Texas, according to [*Dallas News*](<https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2018/08/26/texas-man-claims-shoots-incompetent-female-drivers-self-defense>).

One of the women was hit in the arm while leaving a gas station in March, and the other in the chest on July 10. D'Agostino claimed the driver swerved into his lane twice, and he opened fire. According to *ABC13* the bullet was “[lodged just millimeters from her heart](<https://abc13.com/man-with-dim-view-of-women-arrested-on-new-shooting-charge/4041429/>).”

"It was vehicular manslaughter," claimed D'Agostino in an interview with *Eyewitness News* in July. "It's almost happened to me before."

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Despite initially getting out of jail on a $75,000 bond, D'Agostino was re-arrested Friday after the July shooting victim came forward to report her story. D'Agostino reportedly claims to have shot six women. He remains in jail on a $400,000 bond for his two combined charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

"He rants and rambles about female motorists and how incompetent they are, and how their sole [purpose in life](<https://futurerestored.com/support-for-family-of-addicts/>)is to give birth to male children," a prosecutor reportedly purpose isaid of D'Agostino's social media.

"There's a lot being said. Nobody knows that for a fact," said D'Agostino's attorney Kenneth Mingledorff to *The Washington Post*. "I've seen no evidence of that at all. A lot of assumptions are being made, and we'll work through all that."

"We’re very sorry for the people involved," continued Mingledorff. "\[D'Agostino's\] family wants them to know that they're concerned about them and we're going to do what we can to make sure that this never happens again."

## Author
James is a former staff writer for The Drive. He has changed the conversation around electrification, debunked misinformation online, and become a prominent hunter of what he calls "automotive cryptids."

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