Man, 37, arrested in connection with August shooting death of son

Hood County resident Dallas Ray Shaw was arrested on Oct. 25 in Glen Rose and booked into the Hood County Jail, charged with a second-degree felony in connection with the August shooting death of his son.

A Hood County Sheriff’s Office news release in early August had stated that 9-year-old Levi Shaw had suffered a gunshot wound at his residence in Acton. He was transported by air ambulance to a Fort Worth hospital, where he later was pronounced dead.

That news release also said, “The circumstances surrounding this incident are still under investigation by the Hood County Sheriff’s Office and the Texas Rangers. At this time, there is no other information available to be released.”

A follow-up HCN article that week quoted Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds as saying at the time that it was “a terrible accident” in which “a father accidentally shot his 9-year-old son.” The circumstances of the shooting were still under investigation at that time, however, and Deeds noted that the case “will be presented to the Grand Jury.”

The Oct. 26 HCSO news release from Lt. Joshua Lane states that on Tuesday members of the Hood County Sheriff’s Office, along with officers from the Somervell County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Marshal’s Office “conducted a traffic stop on Dallas Ray Shaw on Highway 67 in Glen Rose, Texas, at which time (Dallas Shaw) was taken into custody and booked into the Hood County Jail for manslaughter” — a second-degree felony.

The release confirms that the Oct. 25 felony charge stems from the shooting death investigation of Dallas’s 9-year-old son from Aug. 9, 2022 at a residence in Acton. Officials arrived there after a 911 call was received on the afternoon of Aug. 9, stating that a 9-year-old “had been shot.”

Lane noted that Dallas Shaw’s bond amount was set at $50,000.