By Moses Leos III

A Kyle man was arrested Saturday and charged with first degree murder after a woman was found shot to death in Spring Branch in Kyle.

The woman was found in the front yard of a home in the neighborhood.

Kyle Police Saturday night arrested James Craig Keen, 49, of Kyle, in connection with the death of Erin Wright, 39, of Kyle. 

Keen was booked into the Hays County Jail at 10:50 p.m. Saturday and charged with first degree murder. Keen is being held in the Hays County Jail on $250,000 bond. 

Police are investigating the incident as a possible homicide, Kyle Police Chief Jeff Barnett said. 

According to police, Saturday’s incident occurred in the 100 block of Grant Way. According to a city of Kyle press release, police received a 911 call at 7:50 p.m. Saturday. The caller said someone was injured at the home and may have been shot. 

Kyle Police Chief Jeff Barnett said there were reports Saturday of a verbal argument in the home. 

“Our officers arrived within a few minutes,” Barnett said in a statement. “They saw an adult female laying in the front yard who appeared to be deceased.”

Hays County Justice of the Peace No. 2 Judge Beth Smith pronounced Wright dead and has ordered an autopsy. 

Three children were in the home at the time of the incident. None of the children were injured. 

Wright is the mother of two of the children, Barnett said, and Keen is father of the two children. All three children were with family members as of Sunday morning. 

Police don’t believe Keen and Wright were married, but have information that shows they were living together. 

Police said in a release there is no indication authorities had been called out to the home previously. 

Barnett also said no protective orders were in place against either of the two adults involved. No information about whether alcohol or drugs were involved in the shooting is available at this time.