HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A man seen on video shooting a father outside his daughter's graduation party was found not guilty by a jury Friday.

Philip Arning had been indicted on a murder charge in connection with the May 2023 shooting of Adam Tobias, whose family says they're outraged by the verdict.

"The moment I heard 'not guilty,' I was back at that night, back when I seen his body on the ground," the victim's daughter, Destiny Tobias, said.

"It broke us. It's like having to go hearing that he's dead again," the victim's wife, Neftaly Perez, said.

Adam Tobias had been celebrating Destiny's graduation at her mother's southeast Houston home.

A seven-second video clip provided by Tobias' family shows him arguing with Destiny's mother outside.

Arning, the mother's estranged boyfriend,

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