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Background: An apartment complex located in the 700 block of Forest Hills Drive in Arlington, Texas (Google Maps). Inset: Aaron Webb (Arlington Police Department).
A man has been accused of tracking down his former girlfriend to her new residence in Arlington, Texas, where he allegedly shot her current boyfriend and abducted her.
Aaron Webb, aged 25, is facing multiple charges. These include aggravated assault with a deadly weapon causing serious bodily injury, aggravated assault involving family violence, aggravated kidnapping, burglary with intent to assault, three counts of deadly conduct, and stalking.
On Wednesday, the suspect was taken into custody and booked into the local jail.
The incident unfolded around 11 p.m. on Tuesday at an apartment located in the 700 block of Forest Hills Drive in Arlington. Present at the scene were two women, one man, and two children. Among them was Webb’s former girlfriend, and according to the Arlington Police Department, it was this connection that set the events in motion.
The ex-girlfriend had relocated to Arlington from another state several months prior in an effort to distance herself from Webb. However, police reported that he pursued her and persistently contacted her through calls and texts. Ultimately, these communications escalated beyond the digital realm.
The suspect allegedly showed up at the home.
Webb “forced his way into the apartment” and then shot the 29-year-old man, the suspect’s ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend, police said. He then reportedly forced her into his vehicle “against her will.”
A resident reported to authorities that they saw a man with a gun, and at approximately 11:10 p.m., officers responded. As they did, they received another call “that a man with a gunshot wound was outside an apartment in the 2100 block of Park Willow Lane” — just a four-minute walk away.
Police determined that he was the new boyfriend, the man who had allegedly been shot by Webb. Officers went to his location and found him responsive; he was brought to a nearby hospital and listed as “expected to survive.”
Back at Forest Hills Drive, the site of the shooting, police learned that the man, the other woman, and the two children “escaped out a back window and ran from the apartment.” But the matter of where Webb went with his ex remained.
Witnesses helped investigators learn what vehicle the suspect drove away in, and with the help of law enforcement cameras, they found it a short while later in Fort Worth, a large city located about 15 miles west.
Officers arrested Webb and rescued the woman. She had “some injuries to her face,” authorities said, the result of Webb allegedly striking her while they were in the vehicle, “but was otherwise unharmed.”
Police also recovered a gun. It is unclear when Webb is due in court.