Deputies are currently searching for surveillance footage of a woman that was shot and killed in her apartment complex this past week.
Police recently charged Kendrick Marquette Atkins, 39, for shooting his fiancee, Dominic Jefferson, 39, just days after he proposed to her on New Years Eve.
The two had been dating three months prior to the engagement.
CNN Reports:
Just days later, on Saturday, he allegedly shot a woman he was dating after an argument, the Houston Police Department said in a statement.
Her family told the affiliate that Jefferson was the victim.
Officers responded to a shooting call at an apartment complex in Houston, and a witness believed the victim’s boyfriend fled the scene, police said.
A witness told the officers Akins appeared to leave but then came back and confronted a “concerned citizen” who was trying to help the woman, the department said.
Akins fired a shot at the direction of the citizen and then fled, a witness told officers.
“Akins surrendered to officers at the HPD Northeast Police Station. He was questioned by detectives and subsequently charged in the shooting,” the department said.
Akins’ public defender, Te’iva Johnson Bell, told CNN Sunday she had no comment on the case.
Let us please keep the family of Dominic in our prayers as they go through this very difficult time. This is such a horrible thing that happened and we hope that she will receive the justice that she deserves.
And now you’re officially in the KNOW
