“I thought I was just helping someone out,” Milton Nieto told WFAA.
DALLAS — Tuesday, a man named Milton Nieto said he was driving when a young man flagged him down asking for a ride. Only later did Nieto learn, he told WFAA, that the man he drove to a gas station was the wanted suspect in the Wilmer-Hutchins High School shooting.
“It was kind of chilling, you know,” Nieto said.
Nieto told WFAA he drove by Tracy Haynes, who later turned himself in, shortly after the shooting. Nieto said Haynes flagged him down and said he’d crashed his dad’s car, and asked Nieto to drive him to his father.
“I thought I was just helping someone out.”
Nieto said Haynes couldn’t give him a firm address on where to go, so he took him to a gas station, where someone else picked him up.
Nieto said he didn’t know exactly who had been in his car until hours later, when police showed up to question him at his office.
“The cops asked me ‘Did he have a gun?'” Nieto said. “And in my head, I was like I didn’t even look for that, I wasn’t even thinking that.”
Hours later, Haynes turned himself in to the Lew Sterrett jail.
“I felt mad,” Nieto said as he described his feelings learning who he’d given a ride to. “This person put me in this situation.”
“If I had any idea what was happening, obviously, I wouldn’t have tried to help.”
