A 9-year-old Texas girl has died after being accidentally shot by a robbery victim who opened fire on his attacker at an ATM, …
A 9-year-old Texas girl has died after being accidentally shot by a robbery victim who opened fire on his attacker at an ATM, police said. The girl, Arlene Alvarez, was shot in the head late Monday when Tony Earls,41, opened fire on a suspect who robbed him and his wife at gunpoint at a bank’s ATM drive-thru, Houston police said. “Earls first shot at the robbery suspect, who was fleeing on foot, and then at a pickup truck he thought the robbery suspect had gotten into,” police said in a statement. But a family of five was inside the truck, where Arlene was sitting in the backseat. The young girl, who had been put on life support following the shooting, died from her injuries Tuesday. “Crazy how life can change in a blink of an eye… no matter how ready we think we are. We never are,” Arlene’s father, Armando Alvarez, wrote on Facebook. “I ended up working late today and could have taken the day off to spend the day with you. My baby is gone.” Alvarez noted in a subsequent post that Earls — who has been charged with aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury — was being held on bond after the shooting.
