{"id":29814,"date":"2025-07-01T12:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/29814\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T12:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:23:18","slug":"arlington-shooting-man-arrested-for-19-year-old-friends-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/29814\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington Shooting: Man arrested for 19-year-old friend\u2019s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jahlen-owen-booking-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Jahlen Owen <strong class=\"source\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">(Arlington PD)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>ARLINGTON, Texas<\/strong> &#8211; Arlington police arrested the man they believe is responsible for a murder outside an apartment complex earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Jahlen Owen allegedly shot and killed his friend, Desmond McKay, and then fled the scene in McKay\u2019s car.<\/p>\n<p> Arlington Shooting  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What&#8217;s new:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Police said 24-year-old Jahlen Owen turned himself in on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">He allegedly confessed to the deadly shooting and gave detectives details on what happened to 19-year-old Desmond McKay on the night of June 2.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Detectives now believe Owen and McKay were friends from welding school.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">They drove to an apartment complex in Arlington to pick up a third friend, and the shooting occurred in the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The shooting happened around 11 p.m. outside an apartment complex in the 2700 block of Castle Cardens Drive.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Witnesses told police they saw McKay arrive at the complex in a vehicle with the suspect.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">McKay allegedly got out of the car. That\u2019s when the suspect tried to drive away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The witnesses said McKay ran back towards the car, there was a struggle, and multiple shots were fired.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The suspect drove away in what police later determined was McKay\u2019s 2016 Chrysler 200. The car was found the next day in Dallas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Detectives later learned that it was across the street from Owen\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The motive for the shooting has not been released.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Owen is currently being held in the Tarrant County jail.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">He\u2019s facing a capital murder charge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this story was provided by the Arlington Police Department and past news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/arlington\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arlington<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Jahlen Owen (Arlington PD) ARLINGTON, Texas &#8211; Arlington police arrested the man they believe is responsible for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7948,6082,7371,7372,50,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-29814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arlington","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tarrant-county","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114777961499014568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}