A North Carolina man who is accused of shooting a 6-year-old neighbor and her parents after a basketball rolled into his yard has been arrested and is in custody in Hillsborough County, Florida, authorities said.
Robert Singletary, 24, was arrested after turning himself in to authorities, Gaston County, NC, spokesperson Adam J. Gaub said in a press release, according to CNN.
Singletary did not have any identification on him, was processed by the Hillsborough County sheriff’s office and his identity was confirmed just before 7 p.m.
The arrest ended a manhunt in which police described the suspect as “armed and dangerous.”
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He is scheduled to have a hearing Friday in reference to his extradition, CNN reported.
According to several witnesses, the incident began Tuesday when a basketball rolled into Singletary’s yard and he yelled at the kids who went to retrieve it. One of the kids told his father, who then went to Singletary’s house and said something to the effect of “stop cussing my kid out, if you got a problem come to me and we can work it out,” according to three neighbors.
Singletary then walked inside, came out with a gun, and opened fire at the neighbors, wounding a 6-year-old girl and her parents, the neighbors said.
“We never expected anybody would break a gun out amongst all those kids,” neighbor Jonathan Robertson told CNN affiliate WBTV. “I mean that was insane.”
The 6-year-old girl, Kinsley, who was hit in the cheek, described her understanding of what happened.
“I couldn’t get inside in time so he shot my daddy in the back,” she said.
The girl’s mother, Ashley Hilderbrand, told CNN doctors removed bullet fragments from her daughter’s cheek and noted that her own elbow was grazed by a bullet. She said they had nothing to do with the basketball game; the family was outside grilling and her daughter was riding her bike.
