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Background: Ashley Pardo appears in court on Friday after being arrested on charges of endangering a child (KSAT). Inset: Ashley Pardo”s mug shot from her arrest in May (Bexar County Sheriff’s Office).
A Texas mother who allegedly helped her adolescent son plan a mass shooting at a middle school is now accused of pointing a shotgun at an 11-month-old baby.
Ashley Pardo, 33, was originally arrested on May 12 and charged with aiding in the commission of terrorism after she allegedly bought her 13-year-old son tactical gear and ammunition. The boy was found by police near a San Antonio middle school and taken into custody, where he remains today. Pardo, who was out on bond, is now accused by police of abandoning or endangering a child with criminal negligence after their investigation uncovered a cellphone photo she took while allegedly pointing the barrel of a shotgun at a then-11-month-old baby girl in 2023.
According to an arrest affidavit obtained by local ABC affiliate KSAT, Pardo allegedly sent the photo to the baby’s father with a text reading, “Tell her to keep being bad.”
KSAT reported that Pardo was arrested on the new charges on Thursday and appeared before a magistrate judge on Friday. She was issued a $45,000 bond and ordered not to have any contact with her children. Pardo had been on partial house arrest after posting $75,000 bond in connection to the charges involving her son’s alleged plan to commit a mass shooting at Rhodes Middle School in San Antonio.
According to the arrest affidavit, the new charges stem from findings connected to the police investigation into Pardo’s original case. Police said that during their investigation, they found photos on Pardo’s cellphone from March 2023 that depicted her aiming a shotgun barrel at the head of a baby girl, who was 11 months old at the time. The affidavit stated that Pardo told the girl’s father that she was being a “brat.”
In another text that she reportedly sent to the baby’s father along with the photo including the shotgun, Pardo allegedly wrote, “Tell her to keep being bad.” The affidavit stated that Pardo had her finger on the shotgun’s trigger as the baby reached towards the barrel.
Pardo was arrested again on Thursday and charged with abandoning or endangering a child with criminal negligence.
Pardo’s 13-year-old son was originally charged with terrorism, but now faces a charge of possessing a prohibited weapon. He remains in custody and could face more criminal charges. At the time of his arrest in May, police stated that they found evidence of his fascination with mass shooting incidents and white supremacists.
In January, police questioned him over “concerning drawings” he had made of Rhodes Middle School that allegedly depicted a muzzle flash and a “suicide route.” The boy was suspended from Rhodes Middle School in April and sent to an alternative school after he was found to have searched the New Zealand mosque shootings from 2019 on his school-issued computer.
On the day he was found near the school and arrested, the boy reportedly told his grandmother he was “going to be famous.”
At the time of Pardo’s arrest in May, police said that she “expressed to the school her support” for her son’s “violent expressions and drawings.”