3 people injured in shooting at Fort Worth business; another shooting reported nearby
Three people were injured in a shooting at a business on South Riverside Drive on Thursday afternoon, and one victim ran across the street to a neighborhood on East Allen Avenue, according to Fort Worth police and witnesses.
A fourth person who was shot in the same area of the city showed up at a hospital about an hour earlier, but it’s not clear whether that incident was related.
Police received a call about shots fired in the 1700 block of South Riverside Drive about 4:45 p.m. and another call a few minutes later to the 1400 block of East Allen Avenue, a residential area. The two scenes were less than a block apart, across railroad tracks running parallel to Riverside Drive on the west side of the street.
One person was in serious condition and one person in good condition, according to a MedStar spokesman. Police later said there were three victims in the Riverside shooting, all with injuries that were not believed to be life threatening. Police have not releaed the ages or genders of the victims.
No arrests have been announced, and police said they were looking for an unidentified suspect.
Police still had at least 13 patrol vehicles at the scene of the shooting at 6:30 p.m., as well as officers from the gang unit.
Neighbors describe scene
Robert Raven, a resident on East Allen Avenue, said he came outside because he heard someone shouting. When he got outside, he said, all he heard the man say was that he’d been shot.
Raven said the man was sitting across the street outside the home of Ruby Raven, his mother. The man who had been shot called police from there.
Robert Raven said the man appeared to have run over to the neighborhood from the business at which the shootings happened, on South Riverside Drive.
Ruby Raven said she was walking outside to check her mail when she saw the man outside. She said the man told her he had a big gun and then showed it to her, pulling it out of his pants.
“It was a big gun, too,” she said.
Raven said when she saw the gun she told the man he needed to go home.
Police said they didn’t know yet if that man on East Allen was actually armed.
Another resident in the neighborhood who declined to share his name said he heard around 12 or 13 pops that he initially thought were from a nail gun. A lot of people have been building or fixing up homes in the area recently, he said.
He didn’t realize there had been a shooting until he heard sirens and stepped outside the house to see police swarming to the business where the shooting happened.
Cobb Park Drive shooting
Police are also investigating another shooting in which a 19-year-old man showed up at a Fort Worth hospital with a gunshot wound Thursday afternoon.
The man was shot in the abdomen in the 1600 block of Cobb Park Drive and arrived at the hospital around 3:30 p.m., more than an hour before the South Riverside Drive shooting.
Police said they don’t know who shot the 19-year-old.
A police spokesman did not share any other information about that shooting.
A police incident report, which provides preliminary information to officers responding to a scene, noted a caller told dispatchers the man was brought to the hospital in a silver Dodge Ram truck that fled the scene after the man was dropped off.
The incident report notes the 19-year-old was in trauma care, but neither the report nor the police statement included any information on his condition.
Police said there is currently no evidence to suggest the shooting on Cobb Park Drive is related to the Riverside shooting, although they occurred less than a mile apart.
This story was originally published April 14, 2022 at 5:20 PM.