A 12-year-old girl in Weatherford, Texas, allegedly took aim at herself and her father on Tuesday night in an alleged murder pact she made with another girl to kill their families and pets, a the Parker County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post.
Officers responded to the scene in northwest Parker County, just west of Fort Worth, around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday when they allegedly found the girl lying in the street with a gunshot wound to her head and a gun under his body, according to the sheriff’s office. Police reportedly found the girl’s father, 38, inside the house with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
Investigators believe the girl shot her father, fled and then killed herself, according to the sheriff’s office.
Emergency medical personnel transported the man and girl to local hospitals by ambulance. A representative from the sheriff’s office did not immediately respond to an inquiry from NBC News about their current conditions or whether the 12-year-old had been charged.
The sheriff’s office has withheld the man’s name to protect the girl’s identity, as the office does not identify juvenile suspects, according to the Facebook post.
Police said the shooting was believed to be part of a murder plot the girl had staged weeks earlier with another girl in Lufkin, Texas, a town about 230 miles southeast of Weatherford. The girls allegedly planned to murder their families and pets and then flee to Georgia together, according to the sheriff’s office.
Lufkin’s daughter allegedly planned to murder her father but did not, the Parker County Sheriff’s Office said, adding that their investigators charged her with criminal conspiracy in planning the alleged murder plot and that the Lufkin police are also investigating. The Incident.
The case is still under investigation, according to Parker County Sheriff Russ Authier, who added in a statement that “due to the injuries, the age of the minors and the sensitive case , published information regarding this case will be limited.”