Dad charged with attempted murder
LUBBOCK, Texas — A father accused of abandoning his 4-year-old son along a rural West Texas highway in the middle of the night was charged Thursday with attempted capital murder, prosecutors said.
32nd Judicial District Attorney Ann Reed said she upgraded the charge against Carlos Rico after talking with the Sweetwater police chief.
"As the facts of the case developed it became apparent that the more serious charges were appropriate," Reed told The Associated Press.
The first-degree felony charge replaces the child endangerment charge he faced after another man found his son along Interstate 20 near Sweetwater about 3 a.m. Tuesday. The 22-year-old father is accused of choking the boy and dumping him on the road about three hours before he was found.
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This booking photo provided by the Saginaw Police Department shows 22-year-old Carlos Rico. Police say Rico abandoned his 4-year-old son along a West Texas highway, and the injured boy spent several hours alone in the dark before a passing motorist ...
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Suffering neck bruises and covered in cactus spines, the boy, named Angel, was rescued three hours later outside the West Texas town of Sweetwater by a high school coach and his son. Fox34 TV says the boy's father, ...
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Carlos Rico, 22, told police he choked and abandoned his son on a Texas highway near Sweetwater. At right, his son, 4-year-old Angel Flores. (Saginaw Police Dept./AP Photo) The father of a 4-year-old boy is now being held ...
