FWPD told WFAA that officers found a woman dead at the suspect’s home.
HURST, Texas — Fort Worth police have charged the man who led authorities on a 38-minute, high-speed chase with murder.
When the pursuit ended Monday evening, officers arrested 30-year-old Dylan Jones. Court records indicate Jones led more than 20 police cars through Tarrant County Monday before he ran over a spike strip and crashed near a shopping center off Grapevine Highway in Hurst.
A warrant for Jones’ arrest said he “weaved through traffic, disregarded multiple stop signs or red lights, traveled on the wrong side of the roadway, drove onto the shoulder of the freeway to pass vehicles, and increased speed to approximately 90 MPH in a 40 MPH (zone) to evade detention.”
Police deployed a taser after Jones emerged from the car in “some sort of threatening manner,” a Fort Worth Police Department spokesperson said.
The warrant indicates Jones was armed with a Smith & Wesson M&P 380 handgun when police arrested him. The weapon is the same caliber as a shell casing investigators found near 28-year-old Ariel Levy’s body, the document said.
Authorities found Levy’s body after 7 p.m. Monday in a northern Fort Worth apartment. Someone called 911 around 3:15 p.m. Monday to request a welfare check at the same apartment, but police left after failing to make contact with anyone inside the unit.
In partially-redacted court documents obtained by WFAA, Fort Worth Police accuse Jones of shooting Levy. It’s not clear when she died.
According to the charging document, Jones drove to a relative’s home in southern Fort Worth Monday and told them he “blacked out” and killed Levy. That relative called 911 around 6 p.m. and told dispatchers about the 30-year-old’s confession, but Jones fled before police arrived.
While officers were still at the home, Jones drove by in Levy’s Ford SUV. The investigators spotted him and began their pursuit.
Court records sometimes refer to Levy as Jones’ roommate. Other times, they refer to her as Jones’ girlfriend.
Levy’s family could not say how close the two were. In a statement to WFAA, they called her a “wonderful person.”
“She left a positive impact on everyone she came across,” they wrote. “We are thankful to have had the opportunity to see her grow up and are devastated that was taken away from her. Ariel was a best friend to everyone in the family, and loved so dearly.”
This is a developing story. This article will be updated as we learn more.