Alexander and Jimenez are both assigned to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, about 11 miles from Clarksville, a town on the border with Tennessee about 40 miles northwest of Nashville, Army officials and police said.
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Since the incident, members of the Clarksville Police Department’s Special Operations Homicide Unit have pursued numerous leads and tips from the public and submitted evidence collected at the scene. Details of the arrest were not known. He is a soldier at Fort Campbell.
Bill Haslam announced a $15,000 reward from the state Wednesday for information on the “intentional” shooting death of 2-year-old Joseph Bankston on October. 4 in Clarksville and Clarksville Police released a sketch of the suspect and new information about a vehicle they are looking for.
The $15,000 reward is for information leading to the capture, arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for the shooting. Police said the suspect intentionally shot the boy. He remains at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in critical condition. He was two weeks shy of his third birthday. “They don’t know that, and how they could do that, he was just a baby”, Joseph’s great grandmother, Janet, said.
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Alexander was booked into the Montgomery County jail.
