PetSmart employee stabbed. Fort Worth police search for suspect

One man was taken to a local hospital after a stabbing Tuesday morning in the Overton Park Plaza shopping center in south Fort Worth, authorities said.

Fort Worth police said suspect information was being obtained and that no one was in custody as of 4 p.m. Tuesday.

The address, 4800 Southwest Loop 820, is for PetSmart.

The store, which opened at 9 a.m., was turning customers away Tuesday morning. At around 10:30 a.m., an employee put a sign outside that said the store is closed.

Several minutes later, a Fort Worth police crime scene van pulled up. A man took pictures of the outside of the store and then went inside.

The store remained closed on Tuesday.

Police said the incident started when employees of the PetSmart saw a man in the store’s office. He didn’t belong there and left.

Soon after, two employees who were outside the store smoking saw the man in someone’s vehicle, Officer Bradley Perez said.

When the two employees threatened to call police, he followed them back inside the store and stabbed one of them in the back with the flat end of a tire iron, Perez said.

The man left in a white Dodge dually truck that was left running in front of the store. He was seen headed westbound on the Interstate 20 service road. The vehicle was found in the 4200 block of Bryant Irvin Road, Perez said.

This story was originally published August 21, 2018 at 10:21 AM.