Washington said she did not realize immediately she was wounded, then saw blood on the car seat and felt pain in her abdomen.

Woodlands Elite cheerleader Payton Washington spoke publicly for the first time Friday morning after she was shot three times in a parking lot in April. Washington, 18, was one of two cheerleaders shot after one of her teammates said she accidentally tried to get in the wrong car in an H-E-B parking lot in Elgin,