Fights at Fort Worth apartments end in deadly shooting; murder suspect arrested
A planned fistfight at a Fort Worth apartment complex on Aug. 3 descended into chaos and gunfire, ending in the death of one woman, police wrote in a warrant for the arrest of a murder suspect.
Steve Henry, 43, was arrested Tuesday in the shooting death of 25-year-old Aliyah Miles, according to online jail records.
Police were initially dispatched to the Valley at Cobb Park Apartments, at 1701 E. Robert St., about 3:45 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 3, the Star-Telegram previously reported. There, officers found Miles shot to death in the front passenger seat of a white Honda Accord in the apartment complex’s lot. At the shooting scene, officers found 24 shell casings of two different calibers, according to the warrant affidavit supporting Henry’s arrest.
Prior to the fight and shooting, Miles was with friends in the West 7th entertainment district when they encountered another woman they knew and that woman’s group of friends, police said. Two of the women, who have children fathered by the same man, began to argue and planned to return to the apartment complex to fight., according to the affidavit.
Henry told police that after the women argued in the entertainment district, he had gone home, but he drove to the apartment complex with his rifle in the trunk after hearing about the planned fight, according to the affidavit. Henry was planning to “provide protection” to one of the women involved in the fight, police said.
Henry and other witnesses told police that multiple brief fights occurred in a park within the apartment complex, according to the affidavit.
When the fights ended and the involved women started walking back to their cars, one of the women tried to run another woman over with her vehicle, witnesses told police. Henry told police he started shooting after that, and that someone then started shooting at him, according to the affidavit.
Miles and the woman driving the Accord were shot while their car was backing up to try to leave the apartment complex, police said. After she was shot, the driver jumped out of the car, which continued to roll backward until it hit a parked vehicle. One of their friends picked up the wounded driver and took her to a hospital, where she was expected to survive.
Henry faces a murder charge and is being held in the Tarrant County Jail with bond set at $350,000.
