An officer tapes off the scene of an officer involved shooting Tuesday, July 23, 2013, in Saginaw, Texas. The officer was shot as he served a search warrant in an investigation into the killing of a 6-year-old girl whose naked, bound body was found wrapped in a tarp on the corner of a North Texas residential street, police said. Saginaw policeSAGINAW, Texas – A teenager suspected of suffocating a 6-year-old neighbor girl and leaving her body wrapped in a tarpaulin on a street corner in their North Texas neighborhood now stands accused of shooting a police officer who was trying to arrest him.
Tyler Holder, 17, of Saginaw, already was charged with capital murder in the death of Alanna Gallagher. Now, he faces an attempted capital murder charge in the shooting of Arlington police Detective Charles Lodatto.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Lodatto, an FBI agent, and a Saginaw police detective went to Holder’s house Tuesday, two doors down from the Gallagher girl’s.
FBI Special Agent Andy Farrell knocked on the front door, announced themselves as police and came face-to-face with Holder.
The FBI agent asked to speak the teen but was refused. When Farrell then told him he was under arrest, “Holder reached behind him and produced a handgun.” Farrell grabbed for Holder and the gun and a struggled began. Holder shot Lodatto in the groin, then Saginaw police Detective Robert Richardson shot Holder in the head, according to the affidavit.