A Louisiana boy celebrating his 16th birthday is dead after police say he was shot by an illegal alien.

According to East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s deputies, Darius Plummer was shot by 49-year-old Octavio Bringas on Monday in an apartment.

“Bringas’ family said they heard one shot, went into the home and discovered Plummer suffering from a gunshot wound,” WBRZ reports.

Bringas had fled the scene.

The accused “said he was playing with a gun when it discharged, striking Plummer,” according to the sheriff’s department.

WBRZ described Bringas as an “undocumented person.”

Bringas has had other run-ins with the law and, according to The Advocate, local prosecutors were under the impression after his 2012 conviction on gun and drug charges, he was going to be deported.

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Bringas was previously arrested in March 2012 after a Baton Rouge police officer pulled him over for driving erratically.

In the 2012 arrest report, authorities noted Bringas did not have a “legal presence in the U.S.” and booked him on a count of operating without lawful presence in the U.S.

Authorities said they found cocaine and a handgun in the pickup truck Bringas was driving at the time.

The East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney’s Office charged him with possession of cocaine at the time.

But District Attorney Hillar Moore III said Tuesday Bringas failed to show up to the 2012 court dates in the case.

When his office moved to forfeit his bail in July 2012, Moore said, an attorney for the bonding company reported that Bringas had been deported by federal authorities.

But it’s not clear whether that was the case.

“Most of the time (the criminal justice system) works really seamlessly,” says immigration lawyer Kathleen Gasparian. “Occasionally there are times where that doesn’t really happen. That could be because there was a bigger fish that day like ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) had other priorities or ICE wasn’t notified or it wasn’t appropriate for ICE to be notified that day.”

“That’s what Donald Trump is trying to get rid of,” Plummer’s cousin, Derrick Ambrose, tells the Advocate.

“In a situation like that, what can you do but send him back to his country? … I don’t know how they’re going to go about that. I know a lot of people dislike Donald Trump, but at the end of the day, he’s trying to protect.”

“In the back of my mind I just don’t understand, why would you be playing with a gun around my baby’s head?” Trina Plummer, the boy’s mother, told the paper.