SUSPECT CHARGED WITH CAPITAL MURDER IN FATAL SHOOTING OF 3-YEAR-OLD BOY

By William Thornton

Orlando Harriel (Montgomery County Detention Facility)

(AL.COM) – – A 35-year-old man has been charged with capital murder after a child was fatally shot in Montgomery.

Police on Sunday announced the charge against Orlando Meghell Harriell. Killed was 3-year-old Jeremiah Chappell.

Montgomery police responded at 5 p.m. Saturday to an undisclosed hospital on a report of a child shot, said Cpl. Ernestina McGriff. The child was later pronounced dead.

Harriell was identified as a suspect. He was booked into the Montgomery County Detention Center at 1:31 a.m. Sunday.