Man Shot, Then Arrested in Tyler

TYLER – A man has been arrested after being accused of attacking his fiancé. It happened just before 10:00 Wednesday night on Martin Luther King Boulevard in Tyler. He is said to have assaulted the woman several times and at one point choked her. She was said to have tried to get away several times, but couldn’t. Fearing for her life, she shot the man in the leg and then locked herself in the bathroom with her 7 month old child. After being treated at the hospital for the leg wound, the man was booked into the Smith County Jail on a charge of assault family violence. His name has not yet been released. The woman was not seriously injured.