A Texas A&M-Texarkana baseball player was struck by a stray bullet during a game, had emergency surgery and is in stable condition, the school said on Monday.
Matthew Delaney, 18, from Princeton, Texas, was standing near the bullpen at George Dobson Field at Spring Lake Park in Texarkana during a game against University of Houston-Victoria Sunday afternoon when he was hit in the chest by a bullet.
The Texarkana Police Department said they received several calls of shots fired in a neighborhood just west of the park, and believe the bullet that struck Delaney was from a shootout that took place there.
Police do not believe Delaney was targeted. «The incident started as a disturbance there that lead to two men shooting at each other in front of the house,» Texarkana PD wrote in a Facebook post. «One of those errant rounds travelled about 400 yards and struck the innocent victim at the ball field.» Demarco Banks, 20, who police believe was one of the shooters, turned himself in on charges of deadly conduct.