A Texas girl fatally shot a 14-year-old boy who allegedly tried to burglarize her residence within the early hours of Thursday, Fort Worth police mentioned.
The girl had known as 911 to report an tried housebreaking not lengthy earlier than the taking pictures, FOX 4 reported. Police have been then known as again to the condo complicated by the girl after the taking pictures.
The teen was shot within the chest and died on the scene.
She is cooperating with police and no arrests have been made, police mentioned.
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The suspect died of a gunshot wound exterior the girl’s Forth Worth, Texas, condo Thursday. (FOX 4)
Police mentioned the girl had beforehand reported tried break-ins at her condo.
The teen, who stays unidentified, was an eighth-grader at a neighborhood center faculty and his mom instructed FOX 4 he sneaked out of the home that evening, and she or he didn’t understand he was gone till the following morning.
“I connect with these kids like that,” youth mentor Durwyn Lamb instructed FOX 4.
Lamb mentioned he was imagined to have a mentoring session with the teenager that very same day and acquired a textual content from the teenager’s trainer about his loss of life simply earlier than he left for college.
“Today was just like ‘Dang. I wasn’t expecting that. Even though I expect that, unfortunately, in the community and the culture, I wasn’t expecting that today,” Lamb added. “And that hurt me.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Forth Worth Police Department.
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