A Las Vegas man was arrested Tuesday for an incident earlier this month in which he shot at a car carrying his girlfriend’s mother and brother 25 times.

Darius Higuera, 24, has been charged with three counts of attempted murder and 27 counts of discharging a gun at or into an occupied vehicle or structure, KLAS reported.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said the shooting incident took place shortly after midnight on July 5, following a Fourth of July party at the home of Higuera’s girlfriend’s family. Witnesses told police that Higuera had “an issue” with members of the family and the mother asked him to leave. He refused and instead fought with another family member, who picked up a rock during the fight and hit him in the head with it, a police report says.

Higuera became angry and showed his girlfriend a gun he had in his car, but she convinced him to leave.

“I should have killed them,” he reportedly texted the girlfriend after he left, the report says.

He returned to the home and stole a backpack belonging to his girlfriend’s brother. The report says that Higuera fired his gun twice at a family member who was chasing him.

The brother and his mother decided to chase him as he left and got in their car to do so. As they neared Rainbow Boulevard and Lone Mountain Road, the report says, Higuera got out of his car and began firing at the other car.

The girlfriend provided a recording of a phone call with Higuera in which he told her he fired at her brother.

“He was following me in traffic, I just shot at his dumb a**,” he said, according to the report.

Higuera also told his girlfriend that anyone who wanted to could call police “but they won’t find anything because I’m too smart.”

In the recording, Higuera also told his girlfriend if anyone wanted to “call the police, they can, but they won’t find anything because I’m too smart.”

After he was arrested, he admitted getting into a fight at the party, where he was hit on the head with a rock, but declined to talk further without a lawyer.

Higuera is being held without bail and is due back in court on August 5.

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[Featured image: Darius Higuera/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department]