‘She’s fine:’ Florida man hides in backyard pool after shooting woman in neck, police say

WILDWOOD, Fla. – A 40-year-old Lady Lake man was arrested after a woman was shot in the neck outside a home, according to the Wildwood Police Department.

Around 11:30 p.m. Saturday, police officers responded to a home on S. Warfield Ave. after a caller reported hearing an argument between a man and a woman, followed by a single gunshot. Officers arrived to find a woman with a gunshot wound to the neck lying in the driveway. She was airlifted to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to an arrest report.

Officers then spotted Robert Anthony Morgan, 40, crawling under a garage door and jumping into a backyard pool before pulling him from the water and detaining him, police said…

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