Updated: 9:00 PM CST January 1, 2021
Updated at 9:00 p.m. with additional details from police.
A 4-year-old boy died early New Year s Day after he was shot around 12:30 a.m., Arlington police said.
Later in the day, Zantyler Foster-Hooks, 21, was arrested and charged with manslaughter in connection to the boy s death.
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Officers said they found a blood trail at a nearby apartment when responding to a shooting call at an apartment complex early New Year s Day on the 700 block of Washington Drive.
They went into an unlocked apartment and found what police described as a crime scene inside, though no one was there.
4-year-old boy, woman killed in accidental shootings related to New Year’s celebrations in Arlington, police say
Police said a 21-year-old man charged with manslaughter in the boy’s death had been dancing with a gun in his hand when it accidentally fired.
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Revised to include more details on both shootings from Arlington police.
A 4-year-old boy and a 39-year-old woman
were killed in separate accidental shootings in Arlington during New Year’s celebrations, and police made an arrest in each case, police said Friday.
A 21-year-old man was charged with manslaughter in the boy’s death. He told police he had been mimicking a music video with a gun in his hand when it accidentally fired, according to an arrest warrant affidavit filed by Arlington police.
A short time later, police were notified by officers in Grand Prairie that a 4-year-old boy had been taken to a hospital there and that the child died of an apparent gunshot wound to the head.
Police confirmed to NBC 5 Friday afternoon that they interviewed four adults, two who were at the hospital and two who returned to the apartment after leaving the hospital, who told police they were in the apartment at the time of the shooting.
Lt. Christopher Cook with the Arlington Police Department said Friday afternoon one of the adults told police initially that the bullet was a stray that had entered the apartment from the outside through the sliding glass door.