New Year's celebration shootings in Arlington lead to deaths of 4-year-old boy, woman

Jan. 1—A 4-year-old boy and a 39-year-old woman were killed in two separate shootings by people who were carrying guns as they celebrated the end of 2020 just after midnight on New Year's Day, Arlington police said.

Police responded to a shooting call around 12:30 a.m Friday in the 1600 block of Connally Terrace, where they found Blanca Nelly Guerra dead on the back porch of her Arlington home. She was pronounced dead at 12:38 a.m on the scene.

Police said Guerra and her boyfriend, who has not been identified by name, went to her backyard to shoot guns to celebrate the New Year. Instead, the boyfriend's gun somehow went off and shot Guerra in the head, police said. The boyfriend then fled the scene.

Officers are searching for the man, and anyone with information should contact Arlington Detective Grant Gildon at 817-459-5691 or contact Tarrant County Crime Stoppers at 817-469-8477.