According to the ABC report, on January 1, local time, the Arlington Police Department in Texas issued a statement stating that a four-year-old boy was shot and killed in Arlington in the early morning of the 1st.
The Tarrant County Medical Inspector stated that the boy was identified as Messiah Taplin. He was shot and killed at about 0:30 on January 1 and was pronounced in a local hospital at 1 am death.
The Arlington Police Department stated in a statement that a whistleblower called the police, saying that they heard the gunshot, and the police immediately went to an apartment complex in the northern suburbs of Dallas. When police officers arrived, they followed the blood traces on the ground. Came to an unlocked apartment and confirmed that the apartment was a crime scene, and no one was in the apartment except the victim.
According to the statement, when the police investigated the scene, a suspicious car drove into the parking lot, matching the car that was discovered by the crowd to leave the apartment building shortly after the shooting.
The police immediately detained the suspicious person in the car, but no arrest warrant has been issued so far.
In addition, at around 0:25 on the 1st, Arlington police found a woman who had been shot in the eastern part of the city after receiving the call. After medical staff rushed to the scene to confirm, the woman was declared dead.
(CCTV reporter Liu Xu)