North Texas, Fort Worth crime highlights from August 2025

This set of Star-Telegram stories highlights notable crime-related events in North Texas from August 2025. The FBI arrested fugitive Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, accused of murdering her son Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, and authorities investigate antisemitism linked to Nazi flags at Rockwall-Heath High School.

Read the stories below.

A Fort Worth teen was arrested Tuesday and accused of being involved in the November fatal shooting of a man in southeast Fort Worth.

MAN FATALLY SHOT OUTSIDE EAST FORT WORTH RESTAURANT; TEENAGE BROTHER ARRESTED

Police are investigating a shooting that killed a man parked outside an east Fort Worth restaurant Thursday night. | Published August 8, 2025 | Read Full Story by Harriet Ramos

MAN ARRESTED IN SECOND MURDER CASE THIS YEAR AT SAME FORT WORTH HOUSE

A gambling dispute in Fort Worth’s Como neighborhood earlier this year ended in a burst of violence during which a man was robbed and killed, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. | Published August 14, 2025 | Read Full Story by Lillie Davidson

Two flags, each bearing a swastika, were hung last week on the facade of Rockwall-Heath High School in Heath, Texas.

NAZI GERMANY FLAGS UNFURLED ON SIDE OF ROCKWALL-HEATH HIGH SCHOOL IN NORTH TEXAS

Two Nazi flags, each bearing a swastika, were hung last week on the facade of a North Texas high school, and law enforcement and school district authorities are investigating to determine who displayed them. | Published August 18, 2025 | Read Full Story by Emerson Clarridge

The Fort Worth Police Department investigates a a shooting that wounded one victim on a TRE train at the Fort Worth Central Station downtown on Friday, July 3, 2025. By Amanda McCoy

FORT WORTH SINGER ACCUSED OF FATALLY SHOOTING MAN HE THOUGHT WAS FOLLOWING HIM

A Fort Worth country singer is accused of fatally shooting a man while driving on East Berry Street on Monday, and he told police he thought the man was following him, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. | Published August 20, 2025 | Read Full Story by Lillie Davidson

Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney Ashlea Deener looks at a placard with Cindy Rodriguez-Singh listed as one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives prior to a press conference on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Everman.. More than two years after 6-year-old Everman boy Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez went missing and was presumed dead, his mother, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, has been added to the list. By Amanda McCoy

FBI ARRESTS FUGITIVE MOM OF MISSING 6-YEAR-OLD EVERMAN BOY NOEL RODRIGUEZ-ALVAREZ

The FBI has arrested the Everman, Texas, woman who is accused of killing her disabled 6-year-old son Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez before fleeing the country for India in 2023, FBI Director Kash Patel announced Wednesday. | Published August 20, 2025 | Read Full Story by Lillie Davidson

The summary above was drafted with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in our News division. All stories listed were reported, written and edited by McClatchy journalists.