Police say homeowner knew shooting victim

An argument inside an upper-class Arlington home early Monday ended with one man shot to death, Arlington police said.

Police were called by the man who lives in the house on the 2100 block of South Arlington Ridge Road just before 4 a.m. Monday for a reported shooting, department spokeswoman Detective Crystal Nosal said.

The man said he had shot someone and when police arrived, the victim was already dead. The suspected shooter was held, but not charged, as was a woman who also was found inside the home.

Nosal said the shooter knew the woman and the victim, and the two had come over to the home sometime Sunday night or early Monday morning. It’s unclear what happened before the shots were fired, but the shooter was taken to the hospital after complaining of an injury believed to have been sustained during an argument.

Police did not release any names of those involved in the case. The suspected shooter had lived there alone for about six months, the homeowners’ family said.

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