{"id":453299,"date":"2026-10-01T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453299\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:56:08","slug":"arlington-man-confessed-to-stabbing-a-child-to-death-injuring-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453299\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington man confessed to stabbing a child to death, injuring another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is in custody after police say he confessed to stabbing a child to death in Arlington.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the case began when the man assaulted an Arlington police officer and fled, leading officers on a brief pursuit. After he was taken into custody, police said he told officers a stabbing had just occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Officers went to an apartment and found a 5-year-old boy suffering from stab wounds. The child was taken to an area hospital, where he later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A second child was also injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Arlington homicide detectives are investigating the stabbing and working to determine what led to the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is in custody after police say he confessed to stabbing a child to death in Arlington.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[150,294,631,116,118,117,11798,27],"class_list":["post-453299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-arlington","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-stabbing","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}