‘I got you now,’ gunman yelled as he shot 3 Fort Worth men over fireworks, warrant says
On the night of June 30, Anthony Tanksley sat in his BMW along with his ex-girlfriend in front of her home on Fair Park Boulevard in Fort Worth.
Anthony Richardson, 26, and a group of his friends began popping fireworks near Tanksley’s car, which made Tanksley upset, according to a warrant.
Tanksley and Richardson argued, and the 56-year-old Tanksley eventually drove away from the Fort Worth home.
But Tanksley returned several minutes later and went into the house, where both his ex-girlfriend and Richardson lived. Tanksley said, “I got you now,” and opened fire at people in the living room, according to the warrant obtained by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Tuesday.
Richardson was shot and killed, while two other men were wounded in the gunfire, police said.
Tanksley, of Fort Worth, was arrested within hours of the fatal shooting on suspicion of murder and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, police said.
He was in the Tarrant County Jail on Tuesday in lieu of $100,000 bail on the aggravated assault charges. As of Tuesday, he had not been formally charged with murder, according to Tarrant County criminal court records.
The warrant written by Detective K.C. Sullivan gave this brief account of the shooting:
Richardson and Tanksley’s ex-girlfriend lived in a house on Fair Park Boulevard. The woman had been Tanksley’s ex-girlfriend for 12 years. Parts of the warrant were redacted, so it’s unclear what her relationship to Richardson was.
On the night of June 30, Tanksley came by his ex-girlfriend’s home and picked her up to go to a store to buy wine coolers.
The two returned and parked in front of her home, where the fireworks issue began.
Fort Worth patrol officers responded to the shooting call at about 10:45 p.m. on June 30 in the 4900 block of Fair Park Boulevard.
A caller reported that her cousin had just been shot, according to a police call log.
Screaming could be heard in the background, according to the call log.
Homicide detectives learned that the man who was killed and a suspect had been in an argument earlier in the evening, but the suspect left the scene.
The suspect returned and fired multiple rounds, shooting three people, police said. Richardson died at the scene, while the two other men, ages 23 and 28, were taken to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.
