The 22-year-old man accused of killing an 11-year-old boy during a road-rage shooting on the westbound 215 Southern Beltway on Friday morning told police that he “did not know there was a kid in the back,” according to his arrest report.

Tyler Johns, who faces charges of open murder and two felony charges related to discharging a firearm from a vehicle into another vehicle, was arrested shortly after the admission.

“Tyler spontaneously admitted to officers that he had discharged his firearm into the black Chevrolet Traverse, and after admitting to the discharge of his firearm, he turned around and placed his hands behind his back without prompting from the officers, in what appeared to be a movement to allow them to place handcuffs on his wrists,” a Henderson Police Department detective

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