22-year-old man taken into custody after his mom’s boyfriend was killed, reports say

Investigators brought a 22-year-old man into custody in connection with his mother’s boyfriend’s death in Hillsborough County.

Tyler Bardin, 22, was taken into custody Thursday, according to WTSP. Officials called him a person of interest in the investigation.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office was called to apartments in the 3800 block of North Cortez Circle in Tampa around 1:43 a.m. Thursday where the 911 caller said an altercation was taking place inside an apartment, according to the sheriff’s office.

When deputies arrived, they found a man’s body outside the apartment dead from multiple gunshot wounds, officials said. The man was later identified as 46-year-old Brian Vessell.

A woman, who was identified as the man’s girlfriend, according to WFLA News Channel 8, was found inside the apartment and was not injured.

Officials believed that Bardin, who is the son of the woman in the apartment, was still inside the apartment during the investigation. He was grabbed by deputies when he ran out of the back door around 11:45 a.m. after a SWAT and negotiating team lured him outside, a sheriff’s office spokeswoman told reporters.

He has not been charged at this time. ABC Action News reports officials believe Bardin and Vessell got into an altercation before Vessell was shot.

Investigators would like to talk to Bardin because he lived in the home with his mother and her boyfriend, WFLA reported.

Detectives were at the scene early Thursday morning as they continue their investigation. They were able to determine the incident was not random and are following active leads on a suspect.

This story was originally published December 28, 2017 at 8:05 AM with the headline "22-year-old man taken into custody after his mom’s boyfriend was killed, reports say."