Two confirmed dead following Fort Worth police chase with stabbing, hit-and-run suspect
Two people have been confirmed dead following a police chase that ended with a standoff on Wednesday afternoon in a south Fort Worth subdivision, police said.
The suspect is in custody and is accused of stabbing one person and crashing into two others along Camp Bowie West Boulevard while fleeing police. Those two people died, authorities said.
Fort Worth police SWAT team vehicles pinned a white GMC pickup truck about 3:30 p.m. near the intersection of Misty Mountain Drive and Deer Trail, with one armored transport hitting the truck in the front and another in the back. Police used tear gas to get the man out of the truck and eventually took him into custody, walking him to a waiting MedStar ambulance.
Fort Worth Police Chief Neil Noakes said at a livestreamed news conference Wednesday afternoon that police were investigating a stabbing that left a man in critical condition Wednesday morning when they spotted the suspect around 1:45 p.m.
Officers were waved down by people in the 8700 block of Camp Bowie West who said a driver had hit at least one person. Police tried to stop the driver but he fled, Noakes said.
Police said the suspect had crashed the stabbing victim’s truck into a game room, killing a man inside, near 8700 Camp Bowie West. About a mile east down the road in the 7600 block of Camp Bowie West, the suspect crashed into a woman sitting at a bus stop in front of a Jiffy Lube, killing her, according to the department.
Surveillance video from the Taz game room obtained by WFAA-TV shows a dark-colored pickup truck drive through glass doors into the business and back up before driving forward again and appearing to crash through the opposite wall.
After killing the two victims, the suspect left the crashed vehicle to carjack the white GMC pickup truck and continue fleeing from officers, police said. He continued until SWAT was called to the 400 block of Autumn Park, about a block south of where the chase ended.
SWAT officers attempted to stop the driver, but he fled north to Misty Mountain Drive, where the SWAT transports blocked him in, Noakes said.
The stabbing occurred around 11:45 a.m. at the Villas de Sonoma apartments, at 8601 Las Vegas Court. A man was in critical condition after being stabbed in the neck, Fort Worth police said.
Officers were dispatched to the area on a report of a cutting.
“A group of four individuals were inside the apartment complex discussing business when a male stood up and stabbed another male in the neck, then fled in the victim’s vehicle,” a police spokesman said.
The stabbing victim was taken to a local hospital and was listed in critical condition and in surgery.
The name of the suspect and the charges he faces have not yet been released.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office will identify the victims when their next of kin have been notified.
Game room manager Kimberlee Atkison told WFAA that the man who was killed was a good friend to employees.
“I’m shocked. I’m in shock. This is a big tragedy,” said Atkison, who was running late to work when the truck drove through the game room. “I guess that’s the biggest thing I’m struggling with is just understanding how someone could hurt innocent people, you know.”
Another game room employee, Junior McAfee, told KXAS-TV that the victim and suspect were both regular customers.
Staff writer Jessika Harkay contributed to this report.
This story was originally published November 10, 2021 at 5:04 PM.
