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FORT WORTH — Police are continuing their investigation of a suspected gang-related shooting Saturday night in south Fort Worth that killed a 16-year-old girl.
Police said the victim, Zuly Ledesma, was riding in a vehicle with her boyfriend, the apparent intended target, when she was shot shortly after 11 p.m.According to police, Ledesma and her boyfriend were traveling west on Seminary Drive in an older-model Cadillac and stopped at a red light at the south entrance of La Gran Plaza. A vehicle described in a police report as a late-model gray Chevrolet Cobalt, occupied by at least four to five people, pulled alongside the Cadillac in the left-turn lane. According to the report, a back-seat passenger in the Chevy began yelling a gang affiliation and pointing a handgun wrapped in a red bandanna at the Cadillac. Police said the boyfriend ran the red light in an attempt to get away when someone in the other vehicle opened fire at his car, striking Ledesma once in the head.The boyfriend drove about a block to Hemphill Street and pulled into convenience store parking lot, where emergency crews were summoned. Ledesma was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 7:50 a.m. Sunday, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office.No arrests had been made as of Monday afternoon, police said.DEANNA BOYD, 817-390-7655
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