A 6-year-old boy was struck and
killed by a stray bullet in Texas on Thursday when deputies opened fire
on a suspect while investigating the theft of a vehicle. Authorities
said it is unclear who fired the bullet that struck the boy.
The Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office on Friday identified the boy as Kameron Prescott.
Bexar County
Sheriff Javier Salazar said officers were called to a trailer park
Thursday morning just before 11 a.m. in Schertz, Texas, a suburb of San
Antonio. During the course of the investigation, authorities said they
came across a woman in her 30s trying to break into a trailer. When
confronted, authorities said she claimed to have a gun and threatened to
shoot them.
"The suspect indicated to the
deputies, 'I have a weapon, I'm going to shoot you.' At that point, she
actually brandished the weapon toward the deputy," Salazar said during a
Thursday evening press conference.
The suspect fled into the woods, Salazar said, where
the deputies gave chase. They eventually opened fire on the woman, who
was struck several times and killed while she stood on the porch of a
trailer, authorities said.
The boy was
sitting inside the trailer when he was struck in the abdomen by a stray
bullet that pierced the wall. He was rushed to University Hospital where
he also died, authorities said.
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