Muldrow Police and Sequoyah County Deputies were called to a home in Muldrow on Oct. 30 to check on a man with a possible gunshot wound to the head.

According to the report Deputy Joey Oliver was called to a home on Shawntel Smith Boulevard after Melanie Tarkinton called authorities about her husband being shot in the back of the head. Tarkinton told Oliver that her husband, Arlon Tarkinton, had been shot by Lewis Ray Love, 51, of Muldrow after her husband and Love got into an argument near Wilson Rock. She said Love called her and said he and Arlon Tarkinton were fighting and Arlon ran over him.

Oliver said Arlon Tarkinton was sitting on a lawn chair with blood coming from the back of his head when he arrived at their home. When Oliver asked Arlon Tarkinton what happened Arlon Tarkinton said he was driving around at Wilson Rock and felt something on his neck. He said when he touched it he found blood.

He told Oliver that someone might have shot him. Melanie Tarkinton said her husband and Love got into a fight and Love knocked her husband out and possibly shot him in the head. Oliver asked Arlon Tarkinton if Love shot him and he said he hadn’t seen Love all day. Arlon Tarkinton was transported to Sparks Regional Medial Center in Fort Smith, Ark., where emergency room doctors confirmed that the wound to his head was not a gunshot wound but only a minor head injury.

When authorities made contact with Love he told officers he and Arlon Tarkinton and had been riding around drinking and got into a fight. Love allegedly admitted to riding around near Wilson Rock with a loaded gun looking for deer. Deputies asked Love if he knew he couldn’t be around a firearm and Love told deputies he did know that.

Love is being held in the Sequoyah County Jail on a $10,000 bond for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Love’s arraignment is scheduled for Jan. 22 in Sequoyah County District Court, Sallisaw.