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Officers from the Pearland Police Department in Texas have issued a warrant for a 19-year-old suspect who killed a child and injured four others in a mass shooting on Sunday afternoon. David Negrete (pictured), 19, is wanted on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and has been considered armed and dangerous according to police.
He was identified through surveillance footage and interviews from witnesses and victims. Three of the five victims have been described as innocent bystanders while two of them aged 16 and 18 are still being interviewed to determine their involvement in the shooting. A 14-year-old girl, 37-year-old man and ten-year-old child were injured from the gun fire and taken to local hospitals, but the child did not survive.
After the police released the suspect’s name, Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas announced that Texas Crimestoppers have offered a $15,000 reward for any information leading to Negrete’s arrest. The 19-year-old has also been added to the Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list. On Sunday around 5.34pm the police department was dispatched to Cole’s Flea Market for a report of shots fired.
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The five victims injured in the mass attack were then located and taken to local area hospitals where the ten-year-old boy was pronounced dead. ‘Preliminary investigations have revealed two Hispanic male subjects were involved in the altercation,’ the Pearland Police Department’s news release said. They also revealed that at least two handguns were found at the scene, but the number of rounds fired is still unknown. ‘We believe there is at least one more, if not, two, other people that actually had handguns and fired those firearms during the scene. There are possibly three suspects,’ Rogers said.
Two witnesses told police that they saw two men in an altercation before the chaotic scene began. The 14-year-old girl and 37-year-old man were both taken to the hospital in stable condition and the man has since been released. The two teenage victims were taken into surgery and detectives are still trying to determine if they were involved in the incident.
Rogers said the shooting was not targeted toward the flea market and was caused by an argument between two men. ‘This is not anything that happens in Pearland, this is extremely tragic anytime someone is a victim of gun violence, especially in our community, this does not happen here in Pearland,’ he said.
Authorities have urged anyone with information on Negrete’s whereabouts or any information on the shooting to contact the Pearland Police Department Tip Line of the Brazoria County Crime Stoppers. ‘If you saw something, heard something and you need to let us know, please call that number and help our investigators out,’ Rogers pleaded.
Governor Abbot said that ‘Texas mourns the loss of a precious child following the devastating tragedy in Pearland yesterday, and our hearts are with the four other victims in the hospital as they recover from their injuries.’
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