Dallas Police are expected to give en update after mother of fatal shot 3-year-Old in Dallas was arrested. Video will appear in in player above.
That parents of 3-year- the old boy was mortally wounded on Monday morning in Dallas was arrested on outstanding warrants and now face additional costs, police say.
Lacravivon Washington, 26 mother of 3-year-old Jalexus Washington was arrested on Wednesday and taken to the Dallas police station for questioning about her. sonx death.
The police said the woman declined talk with detectives and was taken to the Dallas County Jail. for outstanding orders out of Carrollton due to speeding ticket as well as failure to use child safety seat. Dallas police said she also charged with endanger her child sonx death.
NBC 5 News, Dallas Police Department Lacravivon Washington, photograph.
According to arrest affidavit obtained by NBC 5, Washington told police on Monday that she was involved in Road rage incident when she left but business with her three children2-year-old Layla Washington, 4-year-old Jania Washington and Jalexus, everyone of who were unrestrained in her car.
An arrest was made in connection with shooting death of 3-year-Old in Dallas.
She said driver followed her and that she stopped in the area to try and lose a man. She said she parked next to Forest Meadows Park and that while she was going children out of in car in driver came back and fired at them, hitting her son. She said that she then took him to the nearest hospital.
Police said Washington signed a consent form at the hospital allowing police to search her. vehicle for certificate. They said she stated that there were no firearms. in in vehicle when searching vehicle for certificate of road accident incident police found pistol in glove box.
Investigators later learned gun It was one of two that were purchased on March 4 Washington. That second gun did not have found in in car or in Search of her home- said the police.
NBC News 5 BUT car outside Dallas Medical City Under Investigation After 3-year- the old boy was mortally wounded on Monday, March 28, 2022
During a subsequent video-recorded interview at the Dallas Child Welfare Center, police stated that Washington waived her Miranda rights and gave a voluntary statement in which she said that during the road rage incident, she reached for her gun in glove compartment twice but never pulled out. She said that at that time her children were free moving from the front to back seats and that then she heard two shots first of which she said sounded far away.
Police announce traffic disorder investigation story stopped after the officers could not find crime scene. According to the arrest document, the police stated that they found no evidence of Road rage incident.
In addition, according to the mentioned autopsy of the boy in there were unburned gunpowder residues in the testimony on the boys body, indicating that the shot that killed him came at close range. proximity and ruling out someone shot him in passage vehicle.
Charge of put the child in danger added, said the police because she had access to a weapon children who were rampant in in vehicle. The police did not issue any additional information about how the boy was shot dead.
Washington currently in Dallas County Jail on connection of $25,000. Is not clear if she got a lawyer.
Washington husband Jalexus Washington Sr., was also arrested on March 30 for outstanding traffic orders and for illegal possession of weapons. Police said he waived his rights and gave a statement that he was in work when it son was shot and that he did not know of in location of his wife gun but that would be in her concern. That gun he was carrying, according to the police, was second one bought by his wife on March 4th.
Department of Texas of Family and Protection Service past participation with family, NBC 5 agency spokeswoman Tiffany Butler said, although there were no further details. available due to government privacy laws. The DFPS is investigating the death with Dallas police, she said.
The police ask for anyone with information regarding this investigation, contact Homicide Detective David Grubbs, #9159 at 214-671-3675 or email david.grubbsjr@dallascityhall.com. Please enter case number 053933-2022.
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