18-year-old arrested for deadly shooting at North Richland Hills indoor theme park
Teen arrested for deadly shooting at indoor theme park
A night of fun at a North Texas indoor theme park ended with gunfire and a woman dead in the parking lot. An 18-year-old is also facing charges.
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas - A night of fun at a North Texas indoor theme park ended with gunfire and a woman dead in the parking lot. An 18-year-old is also facing charges.
What's new:
Tychriston Reed of Fort Worth is facing charges for murder, two counts of aggravated assault against a public servant, four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and two counts of reckless endangerment of a child.
What we know:
The deadly shooting happened early Sunday morning at Malibu Jacks in North Richland Hills.
Police said a fight broke out inside the entertainment venue just before it closed at midnight. The fight escalated and spilled out into the parking lot, where Reed is accused of pulling out a gun and shooting two people.
DaShayla Jones, a 21-year-old woman from Dallas, died at the scene.
A second victim, a 23-year-old man from Dallas, was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
1 dead, 1 injured in shooting at Malibu Jacks in North Richland Hills
North Richland Hills police have identified a 21-year-old Dallas woman who was shot and killed early Sunday morning, just after midnight, at Malibu Jack's.
Other children were inside Malibu Jack's, as reed continued to be violent, according to investigators.
Two off-duty North Richland Hills police officers were working as security officers at the time and ran outside when they heard the gunshots.
Police said there is evidence that Reed fired shots at the officers.
One officer returned fire, but did not hit Reed. That officer is now on routine administrative leave.
The other officer tried to help the victims, including applying a tourniquet to the male victim’s wounds before paramedics arrived.
Police said Reed was arrested in a neighboring city. He still had what police believe is the murder weapon.
Two other people were arrested with Reed, but police said he is the only one charged with murder. The others were jailed for unrelated charges.
What they're saying:
The priority right now for this Dallas family is the future of this little boy. The four-year-old's family tells FOX 4 he witnessed his mother being shot and killed.
Marilyn Sipert says her granddaughter, Jones, took her son to Malibu Jacks on Saturday evening for a children's birthday party.
"This is her son. Princeton Coleman. I have to tell him that momma is not going to come back no more. Because it is not right to do her like that. She was a good girl," said Sipert.
"He said his momma was lying there. He said,'I went up to there, and she wasn't talking.'"
Jones' family says they do not recognize Reed, and it's unclear if Reed was a guest at the birthday party.
Sipert was struggling to gather strength. Leaning on her family with the devastating loss is still fresh.
"It is really hard. What they did, taking my baby away from me. And took his momma."
What we don't know:
Police are still trying to determine what prompted the fight, how many people were involved, and whether the suspect and the victims knew each other.
"It's still unclear what the altercation was about. And officers still have not been able to identify a connection between the suspect and the victims," said Carissa Katekaru, a spokesperson for the North Richland Hill Police Department.
It’s also not clear how many people were at the entertainment venue at that time of the shooting. Based on Reed’s charges, there were at least two children there.
The Source: The information in this story comes from the North Richland Hills Police Department and past news coverage.