Suspect in Fort Worth park shooting crouched between cars and fired rifle, police say
About 10 minutes before volleys of rifle and handgun fire, there was a warning of what was ahead.
Kieston Allen encountered a woman in Village Creek Park who was among about 400 people gathered there on a Sunday afternoon, according to her account to a Fort Worth police detective described in an arrest warrant affidavit.
“On Blood, that’s the opp,” Allen said. “We about to air her out.”
She moved away after his threat, and was standing near a pickup truck when the shots rang. A woman who stood near her was among the five people who were shot.
The woman whom Allen threatened told a detective that she believed she was the shooter’s intended target.
Affidavits supporting the arrests of Allen and two other suspects in the May 10 shooting make clear that the violence was the result of an eruption among members of the Blood street gang subset APE and members of Crips set YTN.
Two of the victims were critically injured. One was shot in the neck, the other in the lower back. Three others were shot in their legs and were less seriously injured. All will survive, police have said.
Alcohol bottles were everywhere in the Wilbarger Street park in southeast Fort Worth, and people were riding ATVs and motorcycles throughout it, police said. Officers tried to disperse the crowd via loudspeaker to no avail.
At about 6:30 p.m., the gunfire began.
The investigation appears to have broken with police Real Time Crime Center surveillance video, which showed a man getting an AR-style rifle from a backpack and handing to another man who fired it toward the park, according to the affidavits, written by Richard Fluitt, a gang unit detective.
Kristopher Robinzine, 26, removed the rifle from a backpack and gave it to Dcameron McKellar, 21, who was the shooter, according to the affidavits. Both men moved to a grassy area adjacent to the parking lot. It appears Robinzine tried to charge the rifle, or load a live round into its barrel.
Police found one live 223-caliber round in that grassy area. It is believed one live round ejected from the rifle onto the grass at the time the firearm was being loaded, according to the affidavit.
In the video, Robinzine is seen handing the rifle to McKellar, who took a position between two vehicles in a parking lot.
McKellar crouched down and pointed the rifle south, toward the park, according to the affidavit.
Police found two fired 223-caliber shell casings in close proximity to the location where McKellár was seen pointing the rifle into the park.
Police last week arrested McKellar and Robinzine on suspicion of aggravated assault - deadly weapon. Allen, 20, was arrested on suspicion of making a terroristic threat.
The gang unit’s investigation to determine if other assailants were involved is incomplete.
This story was originally published May 23, 2020 at 5:34 PM.
