Fort Worth officers fatally shoot man who fired gun in standoff at home, police say
Fort Worth police officers fatally shot a man who fired a gun during a standoff and domestic disturbance at his home Saturday night, police said.
Police arrived at the home in the 2900 block of Northwest 21st Street around 7:20 p.m. after receiving a call from the man’s wife about the domestic disturbance.
The woman said her husband was “seeing people” and that he had a firearm in his pocket, according to a police call log. Dozens of officers including the SWAT and Crisis Intervention teams responded.
The first officers on scene persuaded the man’s wife to come out of the northwest Fort Worth home, according to police. Officers then began to hear gunshots coming from inside the house, police said in a news release.
Officers set up a perimeter, notified SWAT and the Crisis Intervention Team, and tried multiple times to contact the man, who was firing a handgun, police said.
The man eventually emerged from the residence armed with a handgun and “presented a deadly threat towards the officers,” police said in the release.
Several officers fired their weapons and shot the man. Officers provided medical treatment to the suspect, and he was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:17 p.m.
The man’s name has not been released. He will be identified by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office.
No officers or other people were injured during the incident. Police Chief Neil Noakes said that a patrol car was struck by gunfire. Police said they recovered a handgun from the scene.
The Fort Worth Police Department’s Major Case unit, Internal Affairs, and investigators from the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office responded to the scene and will be conducting investigations, which is standard procedure.
This story was originally published May 13, 2023 at 10:29 PM.
