Texas College Baseball Player Accidentally Struck By Stray Bullet: What A Bad Luck

Authorities and school officials said that a college baseball player was struck by a stray gunshot during a game on Saturday in Texas.

Texas College Baseball Player Accidentally Struck By Stray Bullet: What A Bad Luck

An 18-year-old Texas college baseball player was struck by a stray gunshot while standing in the bullpen during a game in Texas on Saturday afternoon. The incident is under investigation by the police.

Around 5:30 p.m., at George Dobson Field in Texarkana, the incident occurred in the middle of the Texas A&M-Texarkana/University of Houston-Victoria game. The player’s identity has not been made public.

According to the Texarkana Police Department, “it appears that he [was] struck by a stray bullet from some type of altercation in a nearby neighborhood to the west of the park.”

According to the Texarkana Texas Police Department, shots were fired as a consequence of “some type of altercation” that occurred in a neighborhood close by, west of the ballpark.

The unnamed TAMUT player was wounded in the chest by one of the gunshots. He was taken by ambulance to St. Michael Hospital, where he underwent surgery and, as of Sunday, remained in stable condition.

Lynda Street is located in a neighborhood immediately west of Spring Lake Park. At first, we received a number of complaints of shots fired on Lynda Street. Moments later, we received a 911 call that a baseball player at the park had collapsed and may have been shot,” the local police said.

Police said that a neighboring annual Scout-O-Rama, where hundreds of Boy Scouts were at the adjacent park, had been canceled, as the throng started to disperse.

School officials subsequently tweeted that the baseball game had been called off and was now a “no contest,” and that Sunday’s softball doubleheader against Louisiana State University at Alexandria had also been postponed.

“The university’s counseling services are available to players and other students,” Texas A&M-Texarkana officials said. “At this time we ask that you keep our student athlete, his family, teammates and friends in your prayers.”

Detectives have named the alleged shooters as 20-year-old Demarco Banks and 17-year-old Kamauri Butler, who both have arrest warrants out for them for homicidal behavior. Butler is now sought on a charge of aggravated assault.

When police arrived, Butler and Banks had already left the scene. However, after obtaining a search warrant for the house and numerous vehicles, they were able to detain three other males who were present.

The police also arrested Nathan Moore, 19, for tampering with evidence and marijuana possession, Marcell Beaver, also 19, for marijuana possession, and Yankeengea Smith, 49, for illegally possessing a handgun by a felon as well as two charges of possessing methamphetamine and Ecstasy pills.

 

 

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