17-year-old charged with shooting 14-year-old in White Settlement

WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas — White Settlement police arrested a 17-year-old suspect early Saturday morning after he allegedly shot a 14-year-old highschool scholar. 

Police say they responded to the shooting at about 11:48 p.m. final Saturday, Oct. 22, in the 100 block of Ralph Street, the place they discovered the sufferer with a gunshot wound to his leg. 

The sufferer was taken to an area hospital for therapy the place he’s nonetheless recovering, police say. Officers then canvassed the neighborhood and recovered surveillance video from a neighbor. 

Based upon recovered proof, police say they imagine the suspect confronted the sufferer over a woman and fired a number of photographs at him, putting him as soon as. Shell casings discovered on the scene led detectives to imagine the suspect was utilizing an AR-15 model rifle. 

“As a parent myself, I am appalled by the level of violence that was completely senseless and should have never happened,” stated Chief of Police Christopher Cook in an announcement. “I am grateful for the outstanding police work that brought a major arrest within a week of this incident occurring by our Criminal Investigations Division. I also want to thank our regional partners with White Settlement I.S.D. Police and the Fort Worth Police Department for their assistance early this morning.”

The affidavit states the sufferer instructed police the suspect and his associates confirmed up with what he believed to be AR-15 model rifles and that the suspect shot him with the rifle whereas he was leaping out of the entrance driver facet door. The sufferer additionally instructed police he was speaking to the suspect’s girlfriend and believed he might have been arrange by her. 

Officers took the suspect into custody on a visitors cease in Fort Worth with out incident, police say. He was taken to the White Settlement Police Department then transferred to the Tarrant County Jail on Saturday afternoon.