14-Year-Old Girl In A Fight Fatally Shoots 11-Year-Old Bystander; Teen Faces Murder Charge

A 14-year-old girl in Dallas, Texas, is facing a murder charge after allegedly shooting an 11-year-old boy Sunday.

The shooting incident occurred just after 2 p.m. Sunday at an apartment complex on Southern Oaks Boulevard, Fox News reported.

In their preliminary investigation, Dallas police learned that two teenage girls were fighting when one of them went to retrieve a gun.

When she returned, she allegedly fired a shot at the girl she was in a fight with, but the bullet accidentally hit an 11-year-old boy who was in the parking lot as a bystander at the time, police said.

The bystander, identified as D'evan McFall, was rushed to an area hospital where he died, KDFW reported.

The girl who shot the gun fled the scene. She was later caught at a different apartment complex and taken into custody.

According to police, it was unclear where the girl obtained the gun or to whom it originally belonged.

Other bystanders at the apartment complex reportedly said several children as young as 11 years old watched the shooting take place, and once McFall was shot, his friends immediately went to him and tried to stop the bleeding.

"He was naturally athletic. He was very talented. He loved to make people smile. He was a great child," McFall's mother Vashunte Settles told KDFW.

Relatives of the victim said they had been instructed not to discuss the girls or their relationship to the victim because they are all minors and the criminal case will be handled in juvenile court where names are confidential, NBC DFW reported.

But they said all three were close and added that what happened was horrible.

"We need the world to know that there is a better way," said Bishop Reshunn Chambers, a family spokesman.