Update: Man was killed in north Fort Worth neighborhood, not by Dairy Queen, report says
Fort Worth police continue to investigate a Saturday evening shooting that left one person dead in the northern part of the city.
Police said they were sent to the Dairy Queen in the 8600 block of North Beach Street near North Tarrant Parkway just before 5:40 p.m. regarding a shooting.
However, a report from the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office says that the man who was killed — identified as 24-year-old Caleb Sims — was actually shot in the 4800 block of Eagle Trace Drive.
Sims died at 6:31 p.m. of gunshot wounds to his head and torso, the report says.
While residents in the area of Eagle Trace Drive wrote on social media that shots were fired between two cars — one white and one black — Fort Worth police wouldn’t confirm that information. They also wouldn’t say why investigators were seen on Eagle Trace Drive.
The driver of the vehicle in which Sims was injured drove to the area of the Dairy Queen, and officers were sent there. Once on scene, Officer Buddy Calzada said officers found three people inside of the vehicle.
Sims and another man had been shot. The other injured man, who has not been identified, was hospitalized in critical condition.
The third person was not injured, Calzada said.
Eagle Trace Drive, at the Trace Ridge intersection, is about a half a mile from the Dairy Queen.
As of 6:30 p.m. Sunday, no arrests had been made and no suspect description had been released. Police said the men were shot by an “unknown suspect.”
Police did not say what the motive for the shooting was when asked.
This story was originally published February 17, 2019 at 10:12 AM.
