A mother and her significant other were arrested by Lubbock Police on Saturday after an 11-month-old child was shot in the head with a BB gun.
A police report said Ashley Rosalyn Decastro, 23, of Lubbock was charged with child endangerment and failure to report a felony. The report said Adrian Garcia-Guevara, 28, of Lubbock was arrested for injury to a child, false report and several other charges.
Decastro brought the child to University Medical Center. UMC called police to let officers know that a BB pellet was removed from the back of the child’s head.
The police report said Decastro claimed to live in California and the family was passing through Lubbock. Jail records indicated Decastro lives in Lubbock.
The police report said Decastro told police that other children accidentally shot the 11-month-old. Police didn’t believe her and told her so.
The report said Decastro changed her story. She claimed the child stepped in front of Garcia-Guevara while the BB gun was fired and it was an accidental shooting. Then Decastro claimed Garcia-Guevara accidentally shot the child inside the kitchen of a home in the 300 block of Waco. Again, police didn’t believe her.
Police eventually came to believe that Garcia-Guevara shot the child with a BB gun. Police discovered a second child in the home who had been shot in the hand. The second child needed surgery to remove the BB according to the police report.
A third child was not shot with a BB gun. However, the two older children suffered extensive bruising according to the report. Aside from the 11-month-old, ages were not listed except to say these were children under the age of 14.
Decastro and Garcia-Guevara were booked into the Lubbock County Detention Center. Decastro was able to post bond to be released. Garcia-Guevara was still locked up on Monday.
Children’s Protective Services took custody of the children.
