A college baseball player for Texas A&M-Texarkana was struck by a stray bullet in the middle of a game on Saturday, police say.
The bullet appeared to come from"some type of altercation in a nearby neighborhood to the west of the park," police said.
Texarkana police officers respond after a Texas A&M-Texarkana baseball player was shot during a game Saturday.The player, whose identity has not been released, was stable Saturday night at Christus St. Michael Hospital, the university. The police department said in its announcement of the incident Saturday night that he was going into surgery.
Leigh Strope, a spokesperson for Christus Health, said in an email Sunday afternoon that the player remained stable and that the hospital could not provide more information because of patient privacy laws. Texarkana police spokesperson said,"Our detectives continue to investigate and are following up on several leads in the case."The game was declared"no contest," the university's athletics department
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