(January 10, 2009)-- A 15-year-old Waco boy was in custody Saturday, charged with capital murder in a deadly shooting earlier this week and with two counts of aggravated kidnapping in a carjacking in December in which a 24-year-old woman and her 2-year-old daughter were kidnapped, robbed and threatened with death.

Police also arrested Clifton Yudell Dobbins, 20, in connection with the carjacking.

He’s charged with two counts of aggravated kidnapping.

Officers arrested the teenager around 11:45 p.m. Friday after the boy fled on foot in the 1100 block of North 10th Street.

Officers from the Street Crimes Unit and Patrol Division later found him in a residence in the area, police said.

Dobbins was arrested late Friday afternoon at an apartment in the 1200 block of N. 9th.

The capital murder charge against the 15-year-old stems from the shooting death of Gregory Lewis, 48, who was found near death around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 800 block of North 9th Street, after police responded to a report of gunfire in the area.

Lewis, who was shot several times in the lower torso, later died at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center.

Investigators determined that the teenager took money from Lewis after the shooting, which made the crime a capital offense, police said.

The aggravated kidnapping charges against the teenager and Dobbins stem from the carjacking on Dec. 29, which happened in the parking lot of the Kate Ross apartment complex in the 1100 block of South 11th Street.

The victim told officers that after she parked, she noticed a man walking around the parking lot and decided to wait before getting out of the car.

She said the man walked over to her car, pulled out a pistol, and ordered her to get in the back seat with her daughter, who was still strapped in a car seat.

Three other men ran up and also got in the car.

One of them also had a pistol, police said.

The men took the woman’s purse and then drove her to an ATM and told her if she didn’t withdraw cash, they would kill her and her daughter.

The woman, however, had no money in her account and couldn’t make a withdrawal, police said.

The men later dropped off the woman and the toddler unharmed at the intersection of North 23rd Street and Sanger Avenue.

The car was found abandoned at Sherman and East Live Oak Streets.

The teenager was in the Bill Logue Juvenile Center Saturday.

Dobbins was taken to the McLennan County Jail after his arrest.

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