Murder suspect arrested in Arkansas | Police/Fire

A Fort Wayne guy has been arrested in the capturing death of a lady last yr at a south-aspect condominium sophisticated.

Tykwan Walker, 31, was arrested Sunday in Arkansas, Fort Wayne law enforcement confirmed Tuesday. A warrant for his arrest was issued in March 2021.

Walker is charged with murder in the Feb. 14, 2021, demise of Heather Hobbs, 37. Walker also faces a sentencing improvement count of applying a firearm in the commission of an offense.

Hobbs was found shot to demise in her bed in the Candlelite Court apartment she and Walker shared in close proximity to Fairfield Avenue and Airport Expressway.

Crime scene investigators identified Walker’s backpack with a box of .40-caliber ammunition. They located a .40-caliber bullet in a pillow where by Hobbs was uncovered, court docket data explained.

The blanket masking Hobbs had bloody handprints on it from relocating the blanket about on her overall body, indicating that somebody experienced disturbed the scene before law enforcement arrived, courtroom files reported.

Police identified mail belonging to Walker with the Candlelite Courtroom handle on it and photographs of Hobbs and Walker hanging on the wall. But other products appeared to have been eliminated, like a memory card lacking from a security camera lying on a desk, data claimed.

Neighbors said they’d read techniques on the stairway as although an individual was transferring up and down the stairs ahead of law enforcement arrived, court docket paperwork explained.

In September 2020, Hobbs wrote to a single of her friends: “If I die, it was TYKWAN that did it.” A buddy stated she talked to Hobbs late in the night of Feb. 13, 2021.

One particular of Walker’s associates told law enforcement Walker remaining his dwelling at 12:30a.m. Feb. 14 and went to the condominium he shared with Hobbs, activities corroborated by Walker’s cellphone documents. About 1 a.m., Walker designed mobile phone calls to two individuals, both equally of whom immediately drove to Candlelite Court.

After that, Walker built various cellular phone phone calls for 23 minutes until his cellphone was turned off, court docket documents mentioned. A message to Walker reads “five minutes” and a warning to transform off his cellphone, which Walker did, court docket files explained.

A single of the close friends Walker known as at 1 a.m. denied to law enforcement that he talked to Walker, indicating he only spoke to Walker’s sister, who informed him “something occurred to the lady,” referring to Hobbs, courtroom records explained.

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