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A 12-year-old boy was shot and injured while watching fireworks with his family after midnight Sunday in Arlington, according to police.
About 12:20 a.m. New Year’s Day, police responded to a home in the 200 block of Roberts Circle in east Arlington south of Abram Street near State Highway 360 . They found the injured child, who was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Relatives of the child told officers the family was looking at fireworks when “the boy suddenly started complaining that something had hit him,” Arlington police spokesman Tim Ciesco said.
Authorities are investigating the origin of the shot, but Ciesco said Sunday afternoon “it’s not clear” where it came from.
“Whether it was celebratory gunfire is something we’ll be looking at as part of the ongoing investigation,” Ciesco said. Celebratory gunfire during major holidays has repeatedly been an issue across Texas, including in Arlington.
On New Year’s Day 2021, three people were arrested after a shootout between them, police and security guards at an apartment complex where the group went to apparently fire guns in celebration, according to police. A stray bullet barely missed a 6-year-old child that same day in an unrelated incident.