Jail records show Robert Louis Singletary, 24, was arrested Thursday afternoon, ending a manhunt in which police described the suspect as armed and dangerous.
Robert Louis Singletary, the suspect accused of shooting a 6-year-old neighbor and her parents in North Carolina after a basketball rolled into his yard, was apprehended and is in custody in Hillsborough County, Florida, according to Gaston County, North Carolina, spokesperson Adam J. Gaub.
"We never expected anybody would break a gun out amongst all those kids," neighbor Jonathan Robertson told CNN affiliate WBTV."I mean that was insane." The incident was another case in the past week in which young people were shot after making a common blunder, including two teen cheerleaders mistakenly approaching someone else's vehicle in a Texas grocery store parking lot, a 16-year-old who rang the wrong doorbell in Kansas City and a 20-year-old who turned into the wrong New York driveway.
The girl and her mother have been treated and released, police said. Another man also was shot at but not hurt, police said in a news release.Neighbors say suspect had yelled at children before They described him as acting like he"hated children" in the neighborhood, often angry about them playing in and running through his yard, and he had several issues with kids and their parents.
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