The parents of a 3-year-old boy who was fatally shot Monday morning in Dallas were arrested following pending warrants and are now facing additional charges, according to police. Lacravivonne Washington, 26, mother of 3-year-old Jalexus Washington, was arrested Wednesday and taken to Dallas Police Department for an interview on her son’s death. Police said the woman refused to speak to detectives and was taken to Dallas County Jail on pending warrants for an oversized ticket and inability to use a child restraint. Dallas police said they were also charged with endangering a child in connection with her son’s death. NBC 5 News, Dallas Police Department Lacravivonne Washington, Mugshot. According to an NBC 5 arrest warrant, Washington told police Monday that she was involved in a rage as she left a business with her three children, 2-year-old Layla Washington, 4-year-old Janiyah Washington and Jalexus, who were all unrestrained in her car. Arrest for the death of a 3-year-old by gunshots in Dallas. She said the driver followed her and that she pulled into a neighborhood to try to lose the person. She said she parked next to Forest Meadows Park and that as she was taking her children out of the car, the driver turned around and fired at them, hitting her son. He said he then took him to a nearby hospital. Police said Washington signed a consent form at the hospital that allows police to search her vehicle for evidence. They said there were no firearms in the vehicle, but while searching the vehicle for evidence of rage, police found a pistol in the locker. Investigators later learned that the weapon was one of two purchased on March 4 from Washington. The second gun was not found in the car or during a search of her home, police said. NBC 5 News A car outside Medical City Dallas is being investigated after the fatal shooting of a 3-year-old boy on Monday, March 28, 2022. During a subsequent video interview at the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center, police said Washington waived Miranda’s rights and made a voluntary statement saying she had spread her gun twice in the closet during the road rage but did not never pulled out. She said that during this period her children were moving freely from the front to the back seats and that she then heard two shots, the first of which she said could be heard far away. Police said the investigation into the rage story stopped after police were unable to locate the crime scene. According to the arrest warrant, police said they found no evidence of a rage. In addition, according to the boy’s autopsy mentioned in the affidavit, there were unburned remnants of gunpowder on the boy’s body, indicating that the shot that killed him came from close range and excluded his shot from someone in a passing vehicle. Her charge of endangering a child was added, police said, because a gun was accessible to her children who were unrestrained in the vehicle. Police have not provided further details on how the boy was shot. Washington is currently in the $ 25,000 Dallas County Jail. It is not clear whether he has acquired a lawyer. Washington’s husband, Jalexus Washington Sr., was also arrested March 30 on pending warrants and illegal possession of firearms. Police said he waived his rights and testified, saying he was at work when his son was shot and did not know the whereabouts of his wife’s gun, but that he would be in her care. The weapon he was carrying, police said, was the second his wife bought on March 4. The Texas Department of Family and Protection Services has been involved with the family in the past, spokeswoman Tiffany Butler told NBC 5, although more details were not available due to state confidentiality laws. The DFPS is investigating the fatality along with Dallas police, he said. Police ask anyone with information about this investigation to contact Murder Detective David Grubbs, # 9159, at 214-671-3675 or email [email protected] Mention case number 053933-2022.
