Lewisville Police are looking for a man suspected of shooting one of his tenants to death over the weekend.
According to the Lewisville Police Department, officers received a call on Saturday, Nov. 4, around 9:20 p.m. from the Glenn Heights Police Department about an abandoned car in their city.
Glenn Heights PD told LPD that a civilian saw a man getting out of the car and leaving it there on foot. Police said the vehicle's ignition appeared to be tampered with, and after learning it belonged to a man in Lewisville, they figured it was stolen. Lewisville PD said officers went to a house in the 800 block of Harbor Drive where the car's owner lived, and they spoke with his wife. The woman confirmed with police that the car belonged to her husband, and she had not heard not from him.Sign up for NBC DFW newslettersOn Sunday, authorities said they went back to the home after the woman said she still was unable to get in contact with her husband.
After getting permission to search the house, LPD said officers soon found Hernandez-Meija's body in the backyard. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed that Meija died from multiple gunshot wounds. The name of the alleged shooter has not been released to the public at this time, but the police department believes he is on the run.
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