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Dallas police said that Donald Maiden Jr., who had just celebrated his 8th birthday on Sunday, was shot in the face on Tuesday while playing tag outside his apartment complex
Police reports said that Cloninger was seen standing beside his pickup truck as the boy was bleeding, and a witness asked him if he shot the boy.
"Yes, I shot that kid," Cloninger reportedly said.
Maiden's mother, Latamarin Locklin, recalled the aftermath of the shooting to KTVT on Thursday.
"When he ran in I just screamed," she said. "His mouth was just hanging off and it was just a big hole… I just threw him on the couch and laid him in my arms and put pressure on his mouth with the towel."
Locklin couldn't understand why anyone would shoot her child "out of the blue."
Maiden was listed in critical but stable condition on Thursday. Cloninger was arrested and charged with injury to a child, and was being held $2.2 million dollar bond, according to the report.
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