Fort Worth murder suspect seen running on video said he was ‘going for a jog’
Jesus Hernandez lay in the street.
The 31-year-old man had been shot by a person sitting next to him inside a white pickup truck with a Domino’s sign on top. He died later in the day at a hospital.
When police officers arrived at the scene in northwest Fort Worth, the pickup was down the street from Hernandez and appeared to have rolled to a curb with no one inside. The gear shift was in drive.
About two hours after the shooting on Nov. 22, 2023, detectives learned of a call half a mile away from the killing. A person was seen on a surveillance camera video recording in a backyard and apparently had dumped a pair of work boots and a black ski mask, according to an affidavit supporting the arrest of the suspect in the case on the offense of murder.
A video recording of the intersection of NE 35th and North Harding streets within minutes of the shooting shows a person wearing the same clothing as the person who dumped the boots and mask running.
A preliminary comparison suggested that an ejected cartridge casing that an officer collected from inside the pickup was fired from a Glock 43 handgun that was found in a vacant lot two houses down and across the street from where the person who dumped the mask and boots was seen.
The pickup’s driver, whose name police redacted from the affidavit, told detectives that Joshua Obiedo was the shooter, according to the affidavit. On the morning of the shooting, the driver and Hernandez were at Obiedo’s house. Hernandez wanted a ride home.
“So I’m guessing I failed the mission huh,” Obiedo said when they were stopped in the pickup, the driver told detectives.
A few seconds later, the driver said, Hernandez screamed. Obiedo shot him.
In an interview with Fort Worth Police Department Homicide Unit Detective Tom O’Brien, Obiedo denied having involvement in the shooting or knowing Hernandez. The interview took place at a Tarrant County jail where Obiedo had been booked on an offense in another case.
“When confronted with video surveillance of him running from the scene he said that it was probably just him going for a jog because he works out a lot,” Detective O’Brien wrote in the affidavit.
After that interview, the police department’s crime lab concluded that the major DNA profile it obtained from the boots originated from Obiedo. The predominant DNA profile it obtained from the mask also originated from Obiedo, according to the determination of a lab employee.
Obiedo and the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office reached an agreement on a resolution of the case. Obiedo on Wednesday pleaded guilty to murder in the 297th District Court and, in alignment with the agreement, Judge Amy Allin sentenced Obiedo to 35 years in prison.
Obiedo was in October 2024 found to be incompetent, and a judge ordered him transferred to a state mental health facility. In June of this year, Judge Allin found that Obiedo was competent.
He will be eligible for parole after serving half of the 35-year term.
Had Obiedo, 22, had been found guilty of murder at trial, a jury or judge would have assessed punishment at between five and 99 years, or life, in prison.
Assistant District Attorney Idris Akinpelu represented the state. Obiedo retained defense attorney Warren St. John.
This story was originally published September 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM.
