In connection with the case, a Texas father was being held without bond on Tuesday. According to the police, he gave his 4-month-old daughter gasoline to drink in an apparent attempt to kill her.
According to Paris, Texas, police on Tuesday, Edgar James Bridgemon, 24, was taken into custody over the weekend on one count of attempting to kill his infant daughter. Paris is located about 100 miles northeast of Dallas.
According to the Paris Police Department, they assisted Paris Emergency Services on Saturday by going to a neighborhood east of the city after learning that the father of a 4-month-old girl “had intentionally given the infant gasoline to drink.”
According to a news statement from the department on Monday, officers on the scene witnessed a guy who was later identified as Bridgemon leaving the area on foot.
Police report that Edgar James Bridgemon confessed to a crime after being detained.
Bridgemon, who was apprehended just one block from the area where authorities had first arrived, was pursued by an officer.
According to a statement by police captain Terry Bull, “Bridgemon admitted to having given the infant gasoline to drink with the intention of ending the child’s life.”
Bridgemon was taken into custody on a $255,000 bond at the Lamar County Jail on Tuesday after being apprehended at the scene on an attempted capital murder charge, according to authorities.
The mother is the newborn girl’s caretaker, and a preliminary inquiry indicates that she “had allowed the suspect to watch (the) child briefly” at the time of the alleged crime.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Bridgemon had hired a lawyer. As of Tuesday, he was not formally charged with the felony offense, according to online Lamar County court records.
A first-degree felony in Texas carries a penalty of five years to life in prison for attempted capital murder.
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Baby given gasoline to drink while getting better in a Dallas hospital
The baby was taken by paramedics to a nearby hospital, and after receiving more treatment, they sent her to a different Dallas-Fort Worth institution.
“The baby is still at the Dallas hospital and, as of of early today was improving,” Bull informed reporters on Tuesday.
Paris police are requesting that anyone with information regarding this case get in touch with them. On Tuesday, the matter was still being looked at.
