CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A 37-year-old man was arrested Monday on murder charges after a man died in a shooting on Corpus Christi's South Side, according to Corpus Christi Police Department officers.
Officers responded to the scene on the 6600 block of Spurs Nation Dr. just after midnight Monday and found a 35-year-old man with a gunshot wound, according to a CCPD statement.
The man was rushed to a nearby hospital but died, CCPD officials said.
The two men got into a "verbal family dispute," police said, that turned physical.
Corpus Christi Police Department officers said 37-year-old Johnathan Solarte flagged them down, saying he had shot his relative.
In a probable cause statement released to 3NEWS, police reported that they entered the South Side home, and heard crying. They said they found a man in the back of the house on the ground, later identified as Ricardo Cardona, with an elderly woman crying over him.
The man on the ground, police would discover, had been shot, and medics took him to a local hospital where he later died.
The alleged shooter, Johnathan Solarte, told police that Cardona barged into his home and began threatening him. He said he shot Cardona after a struggle.
A witness who was at the home at the time of the shooting said he was outside when he heard a fight inside the house and then heard a gunshot. He said he went inside the house and found Cardona on the floor.
The woman inside the home said she was inside when Solarte and Cardona began arguing, and that she attempted to separate them and was either knocked down or fell. She said that because she was on the ground when the shot was fired, she did not exactly see what happened.
It is unknown how the men are related.
Solarte was arrested and has posted $300,000 bond, but is still in jail, according to court officials. He is expected to be released soon.
The crime is still being investigated and officials ask anyone with information to call detectives at 361-886-2840, or submit the information anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 361-888-TIPS, or online at www.cctexas.com/crimestoppers.
Digital director Ana Tamez contributed to this story.
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