A 17 year old man an apparent mistake in judgement, which is now costing him.
Here is the News Release from the Texarkana Texas Police Department:
We arrested 17-year-old Rickalon Young for Making a Firearm Accessible to a Child earlier this week after a 13 year old boy shot his girlfriend in the arm last month.
Detective Cliff Harris was assigned to investigate the shooting that happened at a house on Apache Trail. When it happened, the boy told officers that the gun accidentally went off when he dropped it on the floor. However, Detective Harris quickly determined that there was no way that the shooting could have happened the way that the boy said it did. The evidence suggests that the boy would have had to have been pointing the gun at his girlfriend when the gun went off. He later arrested the boy for Aggravated Assault.
As Detective Harris continued to investigate what happened, he learned that Young had brought the gun to the house and given it to the boy just minutes before the girl was shot. The girl was treated at the hospital and released when it happened. Young is being held in the Bi-State Jail, where his bond is set at $15,000.