Houston man charged after targeting disabled, homeless with water gun
A Houston man faces assault charges after police say he sprayed disabled, homeless men with a motorized water gun and posted the videos online.
Houston police charged Christopher Cayce, 34, after two June 4 incidents in which he used a high-powered, motorized water gun to hit disabled and homeless men in separate attacks. He faces two counts of assault causing bodily injury. Bond was set at $100 on each charge.
Cayce taunted the victims and posted videos of the encounters on social media. HPD’s Major Offenders Division handled the cases with help from the Westside Crime Suppression Team. Cayce was arrested July 1 and later released after posting bond. He was also booked into the Harris County Jail on traffic violations tied to no license plate and illegal window tint.
In an interview, Cayce said he had been filming himself driving around southwest Houston and Midtown since last summer. He said the videos showed him targeting people near bus stops or while they were walking, including along Bissonnet and in Midtown, and he acknowledged the online clips had drawn thousands of likes. He also described scenes in which he lured a woman to his car with money before spraying her in the face and threw food at a man before blasting him with the water gun.
Cayce framed the behavior as a prank and said he was finished with it. “I’m totally a thousand percent sorry for this,” he said, adding that he would not do it again and was done with the water-gun drive-bys. The case is set for a July 9 appearance in Harris County court.
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