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2012-12-20

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1 dead, 1 injured in Amarillo shooting

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One person was killed and another injured after a woman and her boyfriend returned to their east Amarillo house late Wednesday night and found armed intruders inside, police said.
Police identified…

Ricky Treon / Amarillo Globe-News Amarillo police cars are parked on the street in front of the house at 1618 S. Arthur St., where Amarillo police said a shooting took place late Wednesday that prompted Potter-Randall Special Crimes investigators to arrive early Thursday morning.

One person was killed and another injured after a woman and her boyfriend returned to their east Amarillo house late Wednesday night and found armed intruders inside, police said.

Police identified the dead man as Leonard Torres, 26. Justice of the peace Debbie Horn ordered an autopsy on Torres, which is scheduled to take place Friday in Lubbock.

The boyfriend was transported by ambulance to a local hospital with injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening, police said.

Police said the couple returned to their house at 1618 S. Arthur St. about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. Shots were fired inside the house when the couple found the intruders inside, Potter-Randall Special Crimes Unit coordinator Lt. Erick Bohannon said in a news release.

The man and woman, who have not been identified, ran from the house to a vehicle parked outside and called police, the release said. The woman told police her boyfriend had been shot and intruders were inside.

When police arrived about 10 minutes later, they found the couple in a vehicle outside the house, Bohannon said. Officers searched the residence and found Torres dead from what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the upper body, the release said.

By about 11:50 p.m. Wednesday at least eight Amarillo police

vehicles, an ambulance and a fire truck lined both sides of South Arthur Street.

Special Crimes investigators arrived about 12:40 a.m. Thursday.

Authorities didn't provide any further details about the shooting. Bohannon declined to comment on whether the incident started as a home invasion robbery.

Anyone with information on the deadly shooting is asked to call the Potter-Randall Special Crimes Unit at 806-378-9468.

Potter-Randall Appraisal District records show the property at 1618 S. Arthur St. is owned by Leroy D. Hernandez.

Online Editor Ricky Treon contributed to this report.