Driver has died after being critically wounded and crashing into Fort Worth home
A driver who crashed into a home in southwest Fort Worth after suffering a gunshot wound has died, Fort Worth police said Wednesday.
Homicide detectives are investigating the death of the man, whose name has not been released by authorities.
Police have not released any information on a motive for the shooting.
The crash occurred just after 11 p.m. Monday in the 3400 block of Wedgworth Road South in Fort Worth.
Witnesses told police at least two people ran away from the scene.
WFAA-TV reported that the homeowners found the driver unresponsive. He was hunched over the steering wheel with the car still in drive.
A man who only wanted to be identified as “Ivan” told WFAA that he lives next door and his father owns the home that the car hit.
Ivan’s young daughter was watching TV in the room that the car crashed into, but she was not injured, he said.
Security video obtained by WFAA shows Ivan rushing inside and yelling for someone to call 911.
“It just stunned me out of nowhere,” Ivan told WFAA. “Like I couldn’t believe it was happening.”
He said he saw the car begin to roll toward the house while he was outside talking to a neighbor.
“I saw the car, and its lights were flashing,” Ivan told WFAA. “It starts coming up, and it thumps on the curb — and I’m screaming, ‘Hey!’ Next thing you know, it just drives into the house.”
“He was passed out, completely hunched over in the car,” Ivan said. “We were trying to put the car in park at least, so it didn’t keep going into the house.”
This story was originally published July 6, 2022 at 11:54 AM.
