Police are looking for a man after his ex-girlfriend was found shot dead outside his home, Texas officials said.
Officers responded to an apartment complex in Pasadena around midnight on June 26 after a 911 caller reported hearing gunfire in the area, said Raul Granados, a spokesman for the Pasadena Police Department. Pasadena, to McClatchy News.
“Our first officer arrived on the scene and observed a man running away from the scene still holding a shotgun,” Granados said.
The officer then noticed a woman who had been shot and dealt with her.
By the time other officers arrived, the suspect had fled the area, Granados said.
The victim, later identified by family members as 19-year-old Lesley Reyes, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to KTRK.
Police are now looking for her 20-year-old ex-boyfriend, considered a person of interest, Granados said. McClatchy News is not naming the man because he has not yet been charged.
The man “had been seen in (the victim’s) apartment complex earlier in the afternoon,” Granados said. “He kind of reached out to her and she tried to stay away from him.”
He showed up at the victim’s apartment and confronted her in the parking lot after he returned from work, according to Granados, who said family members of the victim and other witnesses placed him on site.
The couple had a conversation in the parking lot, but it’s unclear what led to the shooting, Granados said.
After the victim was shot, his mother called his cell phone and the man answered, according to KTRK. He cried and apologized several times before fleeing from the scene, officials said.
Detectives are expected to obtain a warrant for the man’s arrest by the end of June 27, Granados said.
Pasadena is about 15 miles southeast of Houston.
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