Man fatally shoots 63-year-old during graduation party at Arlington home, police say

Updated at 2:10 p.m. May 21: Revised to include the victim's name.

A man faces a murder charge in the fatal shooting of a 63-year-old man at a party Sunday afternoon, Arlington police say. 

Hector Salazar(Arlington Police Department)
Hector Salazar
(Arlington Police Department)

Officers found the wounded victim shortly before 6 p.m. in the backyard of a home in the 5000 block of Nocona Lane, near Caplin Drive.

Police think the shooting happened during a college graduation party at the home after Hector Salazar became involved in an altercation with the victim. 

Salazar, 44, shot the man multiple times and fled the scene but was taken into custody nearby. 

The man, identified Monday as Arturo Garcia Lara, a Mexico resident, was taken to Medical City Arlington Hospital, where he died from a gunshot to the chest. 

Salazar was arrested on a murder charge and was booked into the Arlington jail. His bail had not been set Monday morning.