Florida man allegedly assaulted woman who told him to stop following her, shot at her friends during fight: police

A man in Florida is accused of attempted murder following a fight he got into with a woman he allegedly refused to stop following, police said.

“This is an individual that finds himself now looking at two serious felonies and he’s sitting in jail right now,” Doral police spokesman Rey Vales said, WFOR-TV reported.

Alex Arnaud, 32, was arrested on Jan. 12 and charged with attempted felony murder, discharging a firearm in public, and resisting an officer without violence in connection to the Jan. 9 incident at a Doral shopping mall.

According to police, a witness claimed Arnaud was following the woman and allegedly physically assaulted her after she told him to leave her alone.

Following the altercation, a group of men and women got into a fight with Arnaud and another group in the complex’s parking garage. Video of the altercation shows Arnaud allegedly pulled out a gun, shot it several times. He then fled the scene in a Tesla, according to WTVJ.

Nobody was shot during the incident.

Arnaud was being held at the Turner-Guilford Knight Correctional Center.