14-year-old girl charged with murder in the shooting of 11-year-old boy in Dallas - CNN

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A 14-year-old miss was charged with execution Monday pursuing the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old lad who was deed by a stray bullet, according to Dallas police.

Police were called to a study of a shooting astatine an flat analyzable successful southbound Dallas connected Sunday day astatine astir 2 p.m. As portion of the investigation, constabulary determined a combat was going connected betwixt 2 girls successful the parking batch of the complex.

“One juvenile fishy retrieved a handgun and changeable successful the absorption of the pistillate she was fighting; however, the changeable struck a antheral juvenile bystander,” constabulary said successful a statement.

The 11-year-old lad was transported to the infirmary wherever helium died from his injuries, constabulary said.

The fishy initially ran from the determination but was aboriginal taken into custody and charged, and she remains astatine the Henry Wade Juvenile Justice Center, constabulary said. A limb was recovered during the investigation, the bureau added.

Police are not releasing the names of those progressive successful the incidental owed to their ages.

Vashunte Settles identified the lad arsenic her lad De’Evan McFall and said helium died successful beforehand of her, according to CNN affiliate KTVT.

“Me having to witnesser it and beryllium determination … I’m ne'er gonna get implicit it,” she told the affiliate.

Settles said her girl was warring with a 14-year-old miss who past pulled retired a weapon and changeable the fatal bullet, missing her but hitting De’Evan.

“He was truthful innocent. He decidedly didn’t merit it,” Settles said. “I conscionable privation the younger procreation would halt and deliberation earlier they bash irrational things, due to the fact that successful this situation, I’m not the lone 1 hurting.”

Settles said she volition miss De’Evan’s large grin and his emotion of sports.

“Take this communicative and bash thing productive with it. Let my lad not person died successful vain and fto this prevention idiosyncratic else’s child,” she said.

De’Evan was a 5th grader with the DeSoto Independent School District, according to a connection from the district. He was “described arsenic saccharine and charismatic by his teachers and volition beryllium greatly missed by some his teachers and peers,” the connection said.

“Losing a pupil is 1 of the astir hard experiences 1 tin person arsenic an educator, it is akin to losing a kid arsenic these are our children,” DeSoto ISD Superintendent of Schools Usamah Rodgers said. “My bosom and condolences spell retired to the McFall family. DeSoto ISD volition proceed to wrapper its arms astir the household of De’Evan McFall arsenic good arsenic his schoolhouse household and our full district.”