Neighbours told how the teenage daughter of the victim was heard screaming 'my mum's been shot, she's dead' before officers arrived to find the woman in a black Range Rover Evoque with a gunshot wound to her neck. Paramedics desperately tried to save the woman, who is in her 50s, but she was declared dead at the scene.
West Mercia Police said a 45-year-old man was arrested on farmland in nearby Sutton, Staffordshire. A shotgun was also found with him.
The man, from Newport, Shropshire, was held on suspicion of murder and is currently in hospital under police guard.
One Facebook user said: 'I know this woman and she moved to get away, he found her by stalking, shot her and my friend has lost her mom.
'There's nothing wrong with Shropshire. He lived in Sutton, she moved to get away from him, however he found her by stalking her.
'I'm a friend of the lady's family. We are all hoping he wakes up and faces justice. A court of law will [bring him to justice], that's if he survives.
'We are in a great deal of shock. Lovely woman and fantastic mother and she will be sadly missed and that's all I'm prepared to say.' West Mercia Police currently believe the suspect and the deceased knew one another.
Donna Campbell, 38, lives by the woman and said: 'I heard two bangs and thought it was fireworks to start with.
'Then I heard screaming, looked out the bedroom window and saw a silver Range Rover wheel spinning off.
I looked and a young girl was screaming 'my mum's been shot, my mum is dead,'
'I phoned 999 and went out to see if I could help. The girl was just crying that her mum was dead and one of the other neighbours was on the phone to the police.
'He was asking if I could check the lady in the car for a pulse but by that point the ambulance and police were just arriving.
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