FORT WORTH -- A grand jury has declined to indict a man charged in the shooting death of his 9-year-old daughter in May, according to the Tarrant County district attorney's office.
Thomas Brock Wilson, 34, who was charged with manslaughter, told police that his gun went off as he removed it from a bag.His daughter, Anaya, was struck in the chest; she died at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine. Wilson was arrested in July.In an arrest warrant affidavit, police said they found inconsistencies in Wilson's account of what happened May 30 in the family's home in the 13700 block of Cherokee Ranch Road in far north Fort Worth.Wilson told police that he was moving his Taurus .45-caliber handgun to a carrying case and was trying to eject the magazine when his hand slipped, causing the gun to fire. Wilson told police that his hands were greasy because he had been working on a fishing reel."Thomas Wilson's demonstration appears to suggest that the barrel of this firearm should be turned in a direction to his right or left which would have not placed it in the direction of Anaya Wilson," the affidavit stated. "Anaya was standing in front of Thomas Wilson with the approximate width of a queen sized bed separating them."Wilson's son told workers with Child Protective Services that his father played with his children by chasing them with guns, the affidavit stated. Wilson did so after taking prescription pills that made him sleepy and unaware of what he was doing, the affidavit stated.After the shooting, Wilson wrote on his Facebook page that words could not describe his grief: "Due to an ignorant accident my beautiful daughter Anaya is with our Lord. I can't even put into words how devastated I am and really cannot imagine what my wife is going through."This report includes material from the Star-Telegram archives.Elizabeth Campbell,817-390-7696Have more to add? News tip? Tell us
