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Police have arrested the man they believe shot a 28-year-old woman in the chest Wednesday night after an argument in an apartment west of downtown.
When officers talked to victim Jennifer Hair in Parkview Hospital’s intensive care unit, she said a man who goes by the street name “Weezy” shot her at 1212 W. Main St. about 9:45 p.m. because he doesn’t like her.
The man who rents the apartment in the duplex house told police the two were arguing in the bathroom. He then heard a gunshot and saw a man running out of the house, according to court documents.
Hair was taken to the hospital in critical condition. She was upgraded to serious condition Thursday.
Officers later identified Darvon Lawan Smith, 33, of Detroit as being “Weezy” and took him into custody about 11:30 p.m. during a traffic stop in a vehicle in which he was riding near South Calhoun and Pontiac streets, according to police.
The tenant and Hair both picked Smith out of a photo array, court documents said.
Smith admitted to detectives having been in the bathroom of the apartment Wednesday night and said Hair was lying on the floor crying. He also said someone should have shot her in the head.
Smith did not admit to shooting her, however, saying, “You will laugh about it when you hear what happened,” a probable cause affidavit said.
Smith was arrested on preliminary charges of aggravated battery, battery and carrying a handgun without a license.
He was being held in lieu of $30,000 bail.
Smith served nearly 11 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to three counts of home invasion in Michigan in 1998.
He was released last April.
