Police did not release the name of the teen but said he faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the shooting.
ROWLETT, Texas — A 17-year-old suspect who was apparently living under a different name in Missouri has been arrested in a triple shooting that happened in Rowlett in early 2023, police said.
Police did not release the name of the teen but said he faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the shooting, which happened Jan. 13, 2023 at Twin Star Park in Rowlett.
The victims were a 14-year-old and her two adult family members, according to police. All three survived the shooting.
Police said the shooting stemmed from a fight at school. No arrests were initially made, but the suspect was identified by police as a 16-year-old from Rowlett.
More than 18 months later, on Monday, July 22, police in Riverside, Missouri were called to a report of a 3-year-old child left unattended in the street, police said.
Officers responded and found a man in a driveway who told them he was the child’s uncle. The man told the officers his name was “Ken Jones,” but police said they couldn’t find any record of him during a computer search.
The officers suspected that he was concealing his identity, so they took his fingerprint, police said. The result of the fingerprint identified him as the suspect in the Rowlett shooting, according to a police news release.
Police took the teen into custody on two felony no-bond warrants: The aggravated assault charge in the Rowlett shooting and an assault on a public servant charge out of Dallas County.
He also faces charges in Missouri of providing false information and endangering the welfare of a child, police said.