A domestic dispute over alcohol ended in fatal shooting when 28-year-old Tabatha Jones was shot in her Dallas home on Monday, February 2, 2026. The incident occurred in the afternoon at a residence in the 800 block of Green Cove Lane. Jones called 911 at about 3:56 p.m., telling dispatchers her mother had shot her in the side. Officers already in the area arrived within minutes and found Jones in a bedroom with a gunshot wound. She was taken to a local hospital and died about an hour later.

Police arrested Jones’s 49-year-old mother, Shanika Battle, at the scene; the two were the only people in the home when officers arrived. The arrest affidavit says the argument began after Battle became upset that Jones had taken an alcoholic beverage and was reportedly going into rooms that weren’t hers. Battle admitted the 380-caliber pistol found near her purse was hers and that she pulled it to scare her daughter but denied firing it. Investigators recovered a pistol in the living room and a .380 casing in the hallway outside Jones’s bedroom. Battle has been charged with murder and is being held in the Dallas County Jail.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see or hear anything that afternoon that could help clarify what happened?