A 7-year-old boy died Saturday morning after a texas couple opened fire on him and other alleged trespassers.

Donald Coffey Jr., his father and friends were on their way back from joy riding near a levee and swimming in the Trinity River around 9 p.m. Thursday when homeowners Gale and Sheila Muhs (pictured) fired at them with a 12-gauge shotgun, police say.

The Muhses, both 45, are charged with aggravated assault and are being held in the Liberty County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail each. The couple is expected to appear in state district court in the coming week.

The boy, struck in the face, was among eight people, including four children, who had been on the river outing. Four people, including another child, were shot.

The men had stopped to go to the bathroom and got out of the Jeep near the Muhses’ home in the Westlake subdivision south of Dayton.

They heard a loud woman’s voice in the darkness ordering the group to get off the property.

Cindy Nelton said the ordeal happened over two or three minutes in “pitch darkness.”

“And then I heard a shot and our windows were blown out,” Nelton said.

Nelton, who never saw a shooter, said she immediately stomped on the gas and screamed, “We’ve got kids in this vehicle! Y’all need to stop shooting!”

A second shot, and possibly others, came in reply.

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