Drake Ingalls (Weston County Sheriff's Office).
What began as a Tinder hookup spiraled into a deadly confrontation between two men in Wyoming over a woman, cops say.
Drake Ingalls, 24, of South Dakota, pumped a hollow-point bullet into victim Jason Greene after a woman who Ingalls met on Tinder asked him to drive her to Greene's home following a weekend meetup, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Cowboy State Daily.
Court officials told Law&Crime that Ingalls is facing a charge of second-degree murder for the early morning shooting.
According to the affidavit, Ingalls had driven nearly 90 minutes to meet the woman after talking to her for several weeks online. When they finally got together, the woman told Ingalls that Greene was messaging her and calling her a "wh—."
The woman asked Ingalls to drive her to meet Greene "so she could talk to him," according to the affidavit. "[The woman] told Ingalls about the text message and that Greene had abused her in the past," the affidavit says. "[The woman] told Ingalls that if he heard her yell for help to come and help her."
Police say Greene did not know the two of them were coming to his residence, and he and the woman getting into a "heated verbal argument" upon their arrival. Ingalls allegedly told police he heard the woman "yelling loudly" for help and went to see what was happening.
"Ingalls claimed he came around a shed and observed Greene struggling with (the woman) near the doorway threshold," the affidavit says. "Ingalls described the struggle as Greene behind (the woman) and he had his arms hooked under her armpits and another hand on the back of her head or hair, and it appeared he was trying to pull (her) into his trailer."
Ingalls said he "retrieved his 9 mm Glock 17 handgun" from his car, "chambered a hollow-point round into the handgun" and then pointed it at Greene, demanding that he let the woman go, per the affidavit.
Ingalls claimed he shot Greene after the man refused.
"Ingalls could only see Greene's chest as (the woman) was in front of him and he believed he shot him right in the middle of the chest," the affidavit says.
The woman told police that Greene never grabbed or assaulted her and Ingalls "did not need to shoot that gun at all," according to the affidavit.
Ingalls and the woman allegedly got back into his car and drove around the block before eventually returning to the scene to call 911.
Ingalls was arrested and booked on a $250,000 cash-only bond. He is due in court for a preliminary hearing on Aug. 19.