Arrest Made After Man Killed at Lamplighter Hotel in Dallas

A 31-year-old man was arrested Sunday and is accused of fatally shooting a man at the Lamplighter Hotel in Dallas Saturday night.

Jose Luis Tamez-Cano faces a murder charge and is being held on a $100,000 bond.

Police say the victim was shot in the head after a fight inside a room at the hotel in the 9000 block of East R.L. Thornton Freeway near Buckner Boulevard just before 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Officers found the 42-year-old Latin man, his identity will not be released until the next of kin are notified.

Shooting Sunday morning

Meanwhile, in an unrelated shooting in Dallas, the victim is expected to survive after undergoing emergency surgery Sunday.

Dallas police say the man, in his late 20s, was shot several times outside his home in the 2600 block of Falls Drive in Southwest Dallas.

Police say there was some sort of disturbance just after 1 a.m. Sunday. The suspected shooter is still on the run.

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