9-Year-Old Texas Girl Dies After Mistakenly Being Shot By ATM Robbery Victim

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

February 16, 2022

A horrible sequence of events on Valentine’s Day ended with the death of a 9-year-old girl in Texas.

According to police, a man who had just been robbed at gunpoint at an ATM in Houston opened fire in an attempt to stop his attacker but instead shot the girl, who was sitting in the back seat of a truck driving nearby. The girl was rushed to a nearby hospital but eventually died from her injuries.

Arlene Alvarez, a fourth-grader, had been on life support before she died on February 15, her father Armando Alvarez told reporters. He said his daughter was sitting in his truck, wearing headphones when the shooting started during the evening on Valentine’s Day.

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