Mesa police arrest boyfriend of woman found with gunshot wound in head

PHOENIX — The Mesa Police Department has arrested the boyfriend of a woman who officers found with a gunshot wound to her head Saturday morning, authorities said.

Antwon Wilford, of Mesa, was arrested and booked on multiple charges, including aggravated assault, burglary and three outstanding warrants, police said in a press release.

Police officers responded to a “911 unknown trouble” around 9 a.m. Saturday, and were informed that the dispatcher who took the call “could hear what sounded like an argument” before a man got on the phone and said he, “was cleaning his gun and shot a female,” according to the release.

When officers arrived, they were approached by a woman with a gunshot wound leaving her apartment. She told officers a gun struck her in the head after she dropped it, police said, and was taken to a local hospital, where she remained as of Sunday morning.

Three children also exited the apartment and were taken out of the area. One child told officers that “daddy had shot mommy.”

Officers attempted to make contact with Wilford, but he refused, the release said.

The Mesa Police SWAT team arrived and detained him after several hours.

Wilford had a history of shooting at the same woman, police said, as she was driving away in her car at the same residence last year.

Authorities shut down Brown Road east and westbound from Horne to Miller Street during the investigation, according to its Twitter.

There was no indication that the public was in danger, police said.

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