The woman who was shot earlier this month at F.J. “Red” Kane Park is still recovering at a hospital, police say.
ARLINGTON, Texas — On Tuesday, Arlington police released video and new details about an incident earlier this month in which officers shot and killed a man who’d shot and injured a woman at F.J. “Red” Kane Park.
Police say they responded to a park in the 6500 block of S. Cooper Street around 10:30 p.m. on June 9 after receiving a disturbance call involving a man, later identified as Shannon Boyd, 42, of Irving and a 40-year-old woman he’d previously been in a long-term relationship with.
Arlington Police Chief Al Jones said Boyd followed the woman and a friend into the park, and after they parked, Boyd told her friend to leave. The friend called 911 as he left the park, according to police.
Jones said Boyd pulled out a handgun and shot at the woman three times as officers were pulling into the parking lot. Jones says the video appears to show Boyd firing a fourth shot, and detectives believe he may have tried to shoot himself, but missed.
“The officers immediately exit their patrol vehicle and three of them fired their service weapon at Mr. Boyd, striking him,” Jones said.
Police previously said the three officers were placed on paid administrative leave.
Video released Tuesday shows Boyd firing at the woman in the parking lot of the park, the woman falling, followed by officers arriving on the scene.
After the shooting, officers provided first aid until paramedics arrived, Jones said. Both Boyd and the woman were subsequently taken to a local hospital. Boyd was pronounced dead and the woman remains in the hospital recovering.
“Through the course of our investigation, we learned Mr. Boyd and the woman had been in a long-term relationship and had separated several months prior,” Jones said. “There is a history of domestic violence.”
The woman had filed a police report in Allen in which she reported Boyd tracked her to a movie theater and allegedly assaulted her, Jones said.
About three hours prior to the shooting, the woman called 911 to report Boyd had shown up outside a restaurant in Arlington where she was meeting friends, threatened her, pointed a gun at her, and then left, police say.
Investigators were in the process of obtaining an arrest warrant for Mr. Boyd and trying to locate him when the call from the park came in, according to a news release.
Detectives later found a tracking device underneath the woman’s car, police say.
Criminal and administrative investigations into the incident remain ongoing.