After a fatal shooting on South David Street in the morning of Oct. 1, a guy from San Angelo has been arrested. The court papers say the following about that day.
A list of inmates at the Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office shows that 27-year-old Mason Taylor was arrested for murder at 10:34 p.m. on the day of the crime. At the time of release, he was still in jail on a $750,000 bond.
An affidavit made in Tom Green County says that at 8:04 a.m. on Oct. 1, officers from the San Angelo Police Department were called to the 1500 block of South David Street in reference to a shooting victim. When police got to the scene, they found Hunter Seth Joyner, a 23-year-old man who looked like he had been shot several times.
Joyner was going to be taken to Shannon Medical Centre for emergency care. Assistant Chief of the SAPD Craig Thomason said at a press meeting that Joyner would die from his injuries there.
An investigator talked to a detective, who told them that the scene had been sealed by responding police and that there were two people at the house.
The detective found out that the people involved were Joyner’s lover and her mother. The police officer said that the girlfriend and Joyner had a fight on September 30 and that blood was found on the mother’s shoes.
The investigator talked to one of the first SAPD officers to arrive at the scene. That officer said that when he went inside the house, he saw blood and “what appeared to be evidence of multiple gunshots.”
The investigator looked at the pictures the cop took and saw that there was blood in the house. There was what looked like a spent bullet on the bed in one picture, and blood on the bed showed that “the victim was likely in the bed at the time of the incident.”
The detective looked at more pictures of Joyner taken while he was at Shannon Medical Centre and saw “what appeared to be numerous gunshot wounds to the victim’s torso and legs.”
A cop told the investigator that the girlfriend said in an interview that she had talked to her brother, whose name was Taylor, after the fight she had with Joyner on September 30.
She said that after what happened, she, her mother, and Taylor made a plan to get Joyner’s stuff back and start the eviction process.
The girlfriend said that on October 1, her mother called Taylor and said that he “sounded very upset.” She said that Taylor “maybe…did not need to go with them to the house’ with her mother.
Then, she said, they chose to try to get to the house on South David Street before Taylor got there.
The detective told the investigator that the lover said she unlocked the front door and went inside as soon as she got to the house. She told him that she saw him “walking towards the back of the house” with a gun pointed at the ground in his hand.
She said she asked Taylor over and over again “what he had done,” but Taylor “would not respond to her.”
Her words were that she saw Taylor’s girlfriend, who “looked shocked.” One of the first police officers to arrive at the scene said that Taylor and his girlfriend were not at the house when they arrived.
The officer said Joyner’s girlfriend told him that she went to the bedroom and found Joyner on a bed with “at least one gunshot wound to the chest.” Joyner was not moving or responding.
The lover said that Joyner’s mother got him out of bed to start giving him medical care. She told them she was trying to “wake up the victim” and called 911 to help Joyner.
Taylor “had shot the back glass door to break the glass to get into the residence.” This was based on an analysis of the crime scene. The officer said that several cartridge cases were seen at the bedroom’s foot of the bed.