Dallas man arrested after 8-year-old boy shot

Dallas man arrested after 8-year-old boy shot Tuesday night at a Lake Highlands apartment complex

Brian Cloninger

Staff Writer Lucy Sosa reports: A Dallas man has been arrested in connection with the shooting of an 8-year-old boy in the jaw Tuesday evening at a Lake Highlands apartment complex.
Brian Cloninger, 46, was charged with injury to a child. He remains in the Dallas County jail on a $2.2 million bond.

The boy, identified as Donald Maiden, Jr., was shot in the parking lot of La Bella Palms apartments in the 9400 block of Royal Lane near Abrams Road. Witnesses told police Cloninger had been seen waving his gun at people before the shooting, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

A resident at the apartment complex went outside after hearing the gunshot. The boy bleeding was profusely, and Cloninger was standing beside his silver pickup truck. The man asked whether Cloninger shot the boy, according to police reports.

“Yes I shot that kid,” Cloninger told the witness, according to the arrest warrant.
Maiden remains in critical but stable condition after undergoing surgery at Children’s Medical Center Dallas, according to Dallas police.

Family friend and neighbor Dundra Moffit said Maiden is “doing fine.”

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