Edgar James Bridgemon, 24, was arrested over the weekend on one count of attempted capital murder against his infant daughter, police in Paris, about 100 miles northeast of Dallas, said Tuesday.
The Paris Police Department reported that they responded to a neighborhood just east of downtown on Saturday to assist Paris Emergency Services after receiving information that a 4-month-old girl’s father “had intentionally given the infant gasoline to drink.”
At the scene, officers saw a man later identified as Bridgemon fleeing the scene on foot, according to a news release issued by the department on Monday.
