Teen arrested in Fort Worth shooting that killed 13-year-old, 19-year-old, records show
An 18-year-old Fort Worth man faces a murder charge after he was arrested Tuesday night in connection to a shooting that killed two teens at a February party, police and court records show.
Dayran Hobdy was taken into Fort Worth police custody around 7 p.m. According to police and court records, he faces a murder charge in connection to the shooting that killed 13-year-old Kory Smith and 19-year-old Simieon Joseph.
The teens were at an early Valentine’s Day party the night of Feb. 11 when shots were fired at a home in the 1100 block of East Baltimore Avenue.
Smith, a seventh-grader at Crowley Middle School, died from a gunshot wound to his head after being treated at John Peter Smith Hospital. Joseph, a 2021 graduate of Crowley High School, died at the scene from a gunshot wound to his back. Both deaths have been ruled homicides, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office website.
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A man who is related to the woman who hosted the party told WFAA-TV that an argument began after a group of people who weren’t invited arrived at the woman’s home. One or more people then began shooting, he said. The man told WFAA that the victims weren’t involved in the fight.
Police records show that Hobdy is accused of multiple offenses, but the police department declined to provide additional details as its investigation remains ongoing. Police have not said whether more arrests are expected.
Hobdy’s arrest warrant wasn’t available Wednesday morning.
Records from the Tarrant County Jail show that Hobdy faces charges of evading arrest, unlawfully carrying a weapon and drug possession in connection to his arrest Tuesday. Hobdy remained in jail Wednesday and bond had not been set.
An attorney for Hobdy was not listed in court records.
“They didn’t just take my baby — they took someone else’s 13-year-old baby,” Simieon Joseph’s mother, Melody Joseph, told WFAA. “And that is devastating.”
On a GoFundMe page for funeral expenses, Joseph’s mother wrote that her son was “so talented. ... He loved to sing and compose music. He was a praying young man and loved everyone, even strangers.”
Fort Worth and its surrounding communities are losing teenagers to gun violence at a surging rate not seen in years, a recent Star-Telegram analysis found.
At least 101 young people of middle- or high-school age have died since 2016 — the equivalent to four to five classrooms of children. Just last year, 29 young people who were 12 to 18 years old were shot and killed in Tarrant County, the most in at least 10 years. At least 12 more teenagers have died in the first four months of 2022.
This story was originally published May 11, 2022 at 10:38 AM.
