Indian college student fatally shot at Fort Worth gas station; suspect arrested
A college student from India was shot and killed Friday night while working at a gas station on Eastchase Parkway in Fort Worth.
Police were called for a report of a robbery at the Fort Worth Express gas station near the Interstate 30 eastbound ramp about 8:45 p.m., according to a 911 call log.
Indian media outlets reported that the victim, identified by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner as 28-year-old Chandrashekar Pole, was a University of North Texas student and an employee of the gas station.
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Pole moved to the U.S. in 2023 to continue his education after he earned his bachelor’s in dental surgery in Hyderabad, India, News18 reported.
Friends have started a GoFundMe to help return Pole’s body to India. “He had recently graduated and was full of dreams, hope, and determination to make his family proud,” a friend wrote on the fundraising site.
A 23-year-old suspect in the shooting, Richard Florez of North Richland Hills, has been arrested and faces a murder charge, according to jail records.
The suspect fled the gas station and then fired several shots into an occupied vehicle about a mile away from the homicide scene, police said in a news release Saturday. No one in the vehicle was injured.
Shortly after that, 911 callers reported the gunman was in the 8500 block of Meadowbrook Drive, where he rammed through a metal gate and tried to enter a home, police said.
According to the 911 call log, officers were dispatched to the house on Meadowbrook shortly before 9 p.m. Friday after a woman reported that she thought somebody was in her home. No residents were injured, police said.
Officers arrested Florez at the address of the home-invasion call.
Investigators said they also recovered a gun inside the suspect’s vehicle.
Florez was taken to a hospital to be treated for unspecified injuries, but is currently in custody, according to the police news release.
Fort Worth police investigated three homicides Friday
The shooting was one of three homicides that Fort Worth police investigated on Friday, officials said.
In a separate shooting Friday afternoon, 18-year-old Jenny Rosales was pronounced dead in the parking lot of Don’s Seafood restaurant, at 5109 Wichita St., about 4:40 p.m. on Friday, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office.
A 15-year-old boy, Jacob De La Rosa, died Friday in a hospital emergency room after he was stabbed near Polytechnic High School. His father also was stabbed and critically injured, according to the family.
In another shooting early Sunday morning, a man was killed and five people were wounded inside a nightclub on Bledsoe Street in the West 7th Street entertainment district.
This story was originally published October 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM.
