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UPDATE: Suspect arrested after shooting 14-year-old near Tyler park

The suspect is currently being held in Smith County Jail on a $750,000 bond.

TYLER, Texas — UPDATE: On Thursday, Tyler Pollice arrested a suspect in connection to the shooting of a 14-year-old. 

Juan Carlos Martinez, an 18-year-old Hispanic male, was apprehended and taken into custody on an arrest warrant for Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon.

Martinez was booked into the Smith County Jail where he remains at this time on a $750,000 bond.

This is arrest is part of an investigation after a shooting on Sunday, August 8, put a 14-year-old teen in the hospital. 

According to the Tyler Police Department (TPD), the shooting occurred just before 9 p.m. in the area of S. Fleishel Ave. and E. Elm St., near Hillside Park. 

City officials say a 14-year-old was shot and is stable at a local hospital. 

Anyone with information is asked to call the TPD non-emergency number (903) 531-1000 or Tyler-Smith County Crime Stoppers at (903) 597-2833.

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