Cops fight drugs by shooting up car with toddler in it: 'DPS knew child was in car during Hunt County car chase'

WFAA
Feb. 16, 2011

The Texas Department of Public Safety now admits that dispatchers knew a child was in a car officers were chasing on Monday, but the information was never relayed to the troopers taking part in the pursuit.

Senior Cpl. Robert White said minutes before troopers opened fire, Hunt County's 911 center alerted DPS dispatchers about the toddler sitting in the front seat. DPS dispatchers tried to relay the warning, but White said helicopter noise drowned out the radio message.

Three-year-old Raythen Capps was hospitalized with a back injury from a bullet fired by troopers who were trying to end a two-county pursuit.



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