The Texas teen suspected of raping and murdering a 6-year-old girl from his neighborhood was transferred Wednesday from the hospital to jail where he is still receiving treatment for a gunshot wound to the head.

Tyler Holder, 17, will only interact with medical personnel at Tarrant County Jail.

“It is common for accused child offenders to be housed separately from the general population because typically other inmates target them,” sheriff’s office spokesman Terry Grisham told the Daily News.

Other prisoners — like those on the outside — recoil in disgust when they hear how Holder allegedly sexually violated Alanna Gallagher in a manner too gruesome to detail, suffocated her with white Walmart bags that he fastened with red duct tape, dumped her body in a black trash bag and hid her beneath a large gray tarp on the side of a road in their town of Saginaw.

“Even if he had no medical issues, he would be housed in a single cell by himself,” Grisham said.

Doctors from John Peter Smith Hospital are repairing injuries Holder received after an officer shot him in the head.

Police say Holder opened fire on officers serving his arrest warrant, so they fired back.

The suspected child rapist’s bullet struck Arlington Police Detective Charles Lodatto, who was released from the hospital Tuesday. He thanked God and his colleagues his survival.

“The bullet is still lodged in his pelvic area… he is at home recuperating,” said Grisham.

Holder is charged with capital murder for Alanna’s death and attempted capital murder for shooting Lodatto.

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