Black Pulls the Trigger on His Coalburner After She Kicked Him Out of Her House

Xavier Patterson.

It was a headshot, too.

Impressive. Very nice.

KHOU:

Vannessa Jenkins said there was nothing her best friend Meagan Darling was looking forward to more than having friends and family over to the Denton home she had just moved into.

“She was reaching out to all of us for decorating tips and wanting us to help her decorate her new house,” said Jenkins, who’d known Darling since kindergarten.

Instead, family and friends gathered in Darling’s front yard Sunday to mourn her.

“Meagan was like family to me,” Jenkins said at the vigil. “No different than a blood sister.”

Denton police said Darling, who is a mother of four children, was shot and killed in the home she was so proud of Friday evening. The Denton County Medical Examiner said Sunday that Darling had been shot in the head.

Denton police quickly arrested 28-year-old Xavier Patterson on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Police said Patterson placed a call to 911, then hung up. He was found in one of the bedrooms, police said.

Friends and family say Patterson was Darling’s on-again, off-again boyfriend and the father of her two youngest children, a 2-year-old and a 9-month-old. Those children are now in foster care, according to CPS.

Patterson has a long criminal history, mainly involving drugs. Denton police said the investigation into the fatal shooting was ongoing, and charges could be enhanced.

Jenkins said Darling had kicked Patterson out just hours before she was shot. Mourners wore purple to a vigil Sunday to encourage domestic violence victims.

Meagan Darling.