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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Wildwood Shooting: Man Drags Girlfriend Inside, Hides in Pool

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A Florida man allegedly shot his girlfriend in the neck, dragged her bleeding back up the street to the house, told her mother her daughter was fine, and then tried to hide from police in the backyard pool.

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0:00.0

The Florida man allegedly shot his girlfriend to the neck, dragged her bleeding back

0:15.7

up the street to the house, told her mother her daughter was fine, and then tried to

0:20.5

hide from police in the

0:22.0

backyard pool. I'm Darren Marler, and this is weird dark news. Stories around the world

0:27.4

is taking place right now. True crime, the paranormal, the genuinely absurd. If it's breaking,

0:32.5

it could end up as weird dark news. The call came in just before midnight on a Saturday in April 2026 this

0:40.3

month. A man and a woman arguing on a residential street in Central Florida, then a single gunshot.

0:46.8

By the time Wildwood Police arrived at the address on South Warfield Avenue, there was already

0:51.8

a woman bleeding in the driveway, four children inside the

0:54.7

house, a rifle on the garage floor, and a suspect making an unusual choice about where to hide.

1:01.3

Wildwood sits in Sumter County, Florida, just south of the village's retirement community.

1:06.5

On the night of Saturday, April 25, 2026 at approximately 11.30 p.m., officers with the Wildwood

1:12.5

Police Department responded to a home on South Warfield Avenue after a caller reported

1:17.2

hearing a man and a woman arguing, and then a gunshot.

1:20.8

According to the arrest report cited by Click Orlando, officers arrived to find a woman

1:25.7

lying in the driveway with a gunshot wound

1:28.0

to her neck.

1:29.1

She was airlifted to a hospital with injuries described as life-threatening.

1:33.3

The blood trail filled in part of what had happened before anyone said a word.

1:37.7

WESH TV reported that investigators found blood in the street leading toward the home, continuing

1:43.4

into the driveway where the woman was found. A rifle was leading toward the home, continuing into the driveway

1:44.6

where the woman was found. A rifle was lying on the floor of the garage.

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