Man who was charged with manipulation in Lubbock Child's Shooting Death

A Grand Jury of Lubbock County accused a 25-year-old man who was accused of hindering the investigation of the death of a 4-year-old boy at the beginning of this month.

Isaiah Holland is charged with evidence for manipulation, a third degree crime that has a punishment of two to 10 years in prison.

He is accused of having removed a firearm from the scene from which the police investigators were used for the death of 4-year-old Jrako Castillo on April 9 in a house in the 2900 block of the East Bates Street.

The Lubbock police officers reacted to a call from 5:21 p.m. in the house and found the boy who suffered from a gunshot wound. The boy's mother told the official at the scene that the boy shot himself after an affidavit of the boy himself.

The responding officers immediately treated the boy with first aid before EMS arrived to bring him to the University Medical Center, where he later died, said Seth Herman, chief of police at Lubbock, during a press conference the day after the shootout.

A first examination by detectives with the Lubbock Metropolitan Special Crimes Unit showed that Holland and other members of Castillos family were in a bedroom when Castillo was shot, said Herman.

Witnesses told the investigators that Holland fled out of the scene and “may still be armed with the firearm used in the incident”, according to an affidavit submitted with a arrest order.

The boy's mother told the officials that Holland visited her that day. She said that, Holland and her four children were in the bedroom, states of the affidavit.

She said she and Holland lay down on the bed and two of her children were near her head and another was in a chair.

She said Castillo was at the foot of her bed when she heard a shot and the boy fell to the ground, the warrant said.

The boy's mother told the officials that she believed that Holland was the only person who could have brought a weapon to her home.

One of the children of the woman, a 5-year-old girl, said reported to a forensic interviewer that her mother and Holland slept on the bed and was a gun between them.

The girl supposedly said that she and her sister were in her bedroom when she heard the shot and that she believed that Castillo shot herself with Holland's gun, the warrant says.

Members of the anti-gang unit of Lubbock Texas found Holland about six hours later near the intersection of the 45th Street and the Avenue P, which went east in the middle of the street.

Holland reported that Holland ran away and solved a fire weapon – a pistol of .22 caliber – in the backyard of a house in the 1600 block of the 44th Street during the foot hunt.

Shortly afterwards he was arrested and the weapon was collected as evidence, said Herman.

During his interview with Detective, Holland reported that he left his gun on the bed and Castillo took her up and shot himself with it. Holland reported that he was panicked, took the gun and left the house, the arrest warrant said.

He remains recorded in the Lubbock County Detention Center. Its bond is 250,000 US dollars.

Court files show that he is represented by Lubbock lawyer Audie Reese.

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