TYLER, Texas — A man has been arrested for murder after Tyler police found the body of a woman at a house near the hospital district.
According to the Tyler Police Department, around 7:50 a.m. on Saturday, officers were called to the 1300 block of E. Dawson St. for a welfare concern.
When they arrived on scene, police found Laura Garcia, 25, dead from an apparent homicide.
Police obtained an arrest warrant for Javier Valenzuela-Avila, 20, for murder. At the time the warrant was secured, Valenzuela-Avila was in a local hospital being treat for a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
He was released on Sunday and booked into the Smith County Jail on $1 million bond.
