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Wichita Falls shooting victim arrested on criminal charges

A man who was shot by his wife's boyfriend was arrested and jailed on two counts of child neglect/child endangerment/criminal negligence, court records show.

Peter Zander Holloman, 25, was booked into the Wichita County Jail on Wednesday and later released on $10,000 bail, jail records show.

Anyone charged with a crime is presumed innocent until convicted in a court of law.

According to court affidavits filed in the case, an off-duty Wichita Falls police officer was leaving the Cinemark movie theater in Parker Square around 8 p.m. on August 6 when he heard a noise.

A man told the officer he had just shot Holloman in self-defense. Holloman had a gunshot wound to his ankle and was taken to a hospital.

Investigators learned from Holloman's wife and her boyfriend – the suspected shooter – that Holloman drove erratically as he followed the couple from a restaurant to the movie theater and then confronted the boyfriend, who was carrying a gun, according to affidavits. Holloman told police that a shot went off during an ensuing struggle.

He also said that his two children, ages three and under one, were in his pickup truck during the drive from the restaurant and the altercation.

Police allege that Holloman's actions placed the children in “imminent danger of death, bodily harm, or physical or mental impairment.”

The crimes are state crimes. If convicted, Holloman faces up to two years in prison.

A police spokesman said that because the shooting may have been self-defense, the case would be presented to a grand jury to decide whether to file charges.

No charges were filed against the man who told police he shot Holloman.

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