Man killed in Fort Worth after fight outside convenience store ends in shooting
A man was killed early Tuesday morning after he and another man got into a fight in a Fort Worth convenience store parking lot that ended in a shooting, police said.
The victim, whose identity wasn’t released, was shot at least once in the head and taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
The other man, whose name also wasn’t released, fled the scene but was later found at a hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. He was in stable condition Tuesday.
Police didn’t announce any arrests in connection with the incident and didn’t immediately respond to a question about charges Tuesday morning.
Around 1:50 a.m., the men each occupied a car in the parking lot of a convenience store in the 2700 block of Las Vegas Trail near the intersection with Calmont Avenue, police said. The man who was killed was in a Chevy HHR, while the man who fled the scene was in a white Infiniti.
The men got into an altercation and shots were fired, police said. The driver of the Chevy, who was shot in the head, tried to drive away but lost control of his vehicle and hit a tree.
The man was transported via ambulance to the hospital, police said.
The other man had fled the scene. He was later located at a local hospital.
More than 20 police units responded to the scene Tuesday morning, according to a police call log.
Homicide detectives are investigating the shooting, police said.
This story was originally published November 12, 2019 at 7:16 AM.
