A capital murder suspect had reportedly threatened to meet with the victim to get "700 worth" of something prior to the fatal shooting of an Abilene man, an arrest affidavit states.
Eric Glenn Lee II, 22, is charged with capital murder. His bail was set at $2 million.
If found guilty of the capital felony, Lee would be sentenced to life without parole or the death penalty.
According to the arrest warrant affidavit:
Wichita Falls police were called to the scene of a shooting in the 1000 block of Juarez Street around 12:56 a.m.
When officers arrived on scene, they found 28-year-old Matthew Liggins in front of the address with multiple gunshot wounds to the upper torso.
Liggins was taken to United Regional Health Care System, where he later died from his injuries.
A witness told responding officers that she was in the front passenger of Liggins' vehicle and identified a possible suspect as Lee.
The witness was taken to the Wichita Falls Police Department by detectives to be further interviewed.
At the station, the witness said Liggins had driven them from Abilene to Wichita Falls to pick up a friend who had been robbed by Lee earlier in the day.
She said they didn't know that the friend had been robbed until after they arrived in Wichita Falls.
When they arrived the apartments, the witness said Liggins contacted Lee and told him that they were outside.
The witness said Lee and a person with brown and black dreads – she thought the person might be a woman, but she could be wrong – came out to Liggins' Jeep Patriot.
She said they opened the back driver side door. Lee reportedly pulled out a gun, pointed it at Liggins from the backseat and demanded that Liggins give Lee everything he had.
The witness said Liggins told Lee that he didn't have anything and Lee started shooting, striking Liggins multiple times.
She said Lee then grabbed a Nike draw string bag and fled the scene.
The witness said she knew Lee from Abilene and would be able to pick him out of a photo lineup.
She was shown photographs of Lee and five other black men with similar features. The witness selected Lee and said she was 100 percent sure that the photograph was of him.
The witness also showed detectives several text messages from the friend that Lee had told the friend he was meeting with Liggins to get "700 worth" of something.
The messages also showed that the friend tried to tell them before they got to Wichita Falls that Lee had tried to rob her before this happened.
Detectives spoke with the friend, who said Lee and another man with braids or dread locks had robbed her around 7 p.m. the previous day. She said Lee had a gun then and has shot at her house in the past.