Person of interest in fatal shooting on Fort Worth ISD campus found dead, police say
A person of interest in the shooting death of a Fort Worth ISD elementary school employee was found dead Friday, the Forest Hill Police Department announced in a news release.
The victim, cafeteria worker Yolanda Gibbs, 56, was found with multiple gunshot wounds just before 7 a.m. Wednesday in the back parking lot of David K. Sellars Elementary School.
She was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, where she was pronounced dead.
The investigation determined Gibbs had been speaking to a person who was in a car in the school parking lot, police said in a news release Wednesday. Investigators believe Gibbs knew the shooter, who fled the scene in a silver Chevy Impala. Police said they found the car abandoned in Fort Worth on Wednesday and were working to confirm the suspect’s identity and obtain an arrest warrant.
In the news release Friday, Forest Hill police said they had been working with other law enforcement agencies, processing evidence and gathering information in an effort to charge their person of interest in the investigation. That person of interest was found dead Friday night, police said.
The identity of the person of interest was not released by police, and investigators have not described a motive for the shooting. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the cause of death.
This story was originally published October 13, 2023 at 8:38 PM.
