Crime

Man dies at hospital a day after being shot in the head outside Fort Worth house

A 46-year-old man died Friday at a hospital about 30 hours after he was shot in the head in a yard outside a Fort Worth house.

Luis Gonzalez Marquez, of Ryan, died at John Peter Smith Hospital, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office said.

Marquez was shot at about 9 a.m. Thursday in the 1900 block of NE 36th Street, Fort Worth police said. An assailant left the scene before police arrived.

Police had not announced an arrest or released a motive in Marquez’s killing as of Friday night.

Emerson Clarridge
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Emerson Clarridge covers crime and other breaking news for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He works days and reports on law enforcement affairs in Tarrant County. He previously was a reporter at the Omaha World-Herald and the Observer-Dispatch in Utica, New York.
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