Texas Teen Charged with Sexually Assaulting and Killing a Six-Year-Old
BALDWIN: Near the bottom of the hour, I'm Brooke Baldwin. And I want to give you -- it's really just this chilling story out of Dallas, Texas, a 17-year-old accused of sexually assaulting and killing a 6-year-old girl. Now he's in critical condition after getting into this shoot-out with police trying to arrest him. And neighbors told our affiliate in Dallas WFAA they saw the accused teen at this little girl's vigil, and they say he was wearing a T- shirt with one word across his chest, "Wanted." Sara Ganim has the back story.</s>OPERATOR: Saginaw 911, what is your emergency?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have got a dead body on the corner. I think it's a little girl. It's in a bag -- plastic bag. Somebody dropped it off.</s>SARA GANIM, CNN CONTRIBUTOR (voice-over): With a killer on the loose for 23 days, the Fort Worth suburb of Saginaw, Texas, was on edge.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I would see her a lot just walking around, trying to like find somebody to play with.</s>GANIM: Six-year-old Alanna Gallagher, a redhead with a pixie haircut, found July 1, the same day she went missing, bound and lifeless, with plastic bags over her head. She suffocated.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I haven't opened it all the way up, but I can see the legs and everything. There's a belt around it and tape.</s>GANIM: Her father did what many parents do in desperately tragic situations. He asked for help.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We urge anyone with information about her to contact the police.</s>GANIM: And help came. Tips poured in, but the family was also targeted. Alanna had a mom and two dads all living in the same house.