Police questioning fiancé in shooting

Authorities in Houston have taken into custody a man they believe fatally shot his fiancée three days after proposing to her on New Year’s Eve.

Police say the man shot the woman — identified by family members as Dominic Jefferson — during an argument around midnight Saturday in the parking lot of a northwest Houston apartment complex in the 5500 block of Holly View Drive.

Houston police Sgt. Cullen

Duncan said at least one neighbor overheard the couple’s fight and came outside to help Jefferson. The man, identified by police as Kendrick Akins, 39, then shot at the neighbor but missed, Duncan said.

Police found Jefferson on the ground next to a car with its door open. By then, Akins had left.

Soon after Akins was identified as the woman’s fiancé, police said he went to an HPD patrol station on Saturday afternoon to be questioned by investigators. He has not yet been charged in connection to the shooting.

Amid the police investigation, Jefferson’s sister expressed confusion at the possibility that Jefferson was killed at the hands of the man who recently proposed to her. The New Year’s Eve engagement was recorded in a Facebook Live video.

“He just proposed to her in front of the whole world,” she cried. “I want to know why.

Why would you do this? You say you loved her.”

The two had been dating for about three months. She said Jefferson was the mother to two boys and one girl.