17-Year-Old Remains in Jail for Making Gun Accessible to Kid

Detective Cliff Harris with the Texarkana Texas Police Department was assigned to investigate the shooting that happened at a house on Apache Trail. According to the report, 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 the boy described the incident. 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.