1 killed, 5 wounded in shooting inside bar in Fort Worth’s West 7th district
A 31-year-old man was killed and five people were wounded early Sunday in an apparently gang-related shooting inside a bar on Bledsoe Street in Fort Worth’s West 7th entertainment district, police said.
Patrique Allen was shot to death about 1:40 a.m. at Social LIVV, 3005 Bledsoe St., according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office. Allen was shot in his upper torso, police said.
Another man and four women who were also shot were taken from the nightclub to hospitals by ambulance or in their own vehicles. All five surviving victims were stable as of Sunday afternoon, police said, and their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
In their preliminary investigation, homicide detectives determined that multiple unidentified suspects fired handguns inside the bar in what appears to be an unprovoked shooting, police said.
Investigators believe that Allen was the target of the shooting and the other victims were bystanders.
The suspects ran immediately after the shooting and before officers arrived. No arrests had been made as of Tuesday.
Allen was a documented gang member, and the motive for the shooting appears to be gang-related, police said.
The block of Bledsoe Street where Sunday’s shooting occurred is where TCU student Wes Smith was fatally shot in the street, outside the bar formerly called Your Mom’s House, in September 2023. The shooter in that case pleaded guilty to murder in June of this year and was sentenced to 60 years in prison.
Sunday’s shooting continued a violent weekend in Fort Worth after police investigated three homicides on Friday, including a stabbing across the street from Polytechnic High School that killed a 15-year-old student and critically injured his father, a shooting that killed an 18-year-old woman in a restaurant parking lot, and a shooting that killed a gas station employee during a reported robbery.
Staff writers Shambhavi Rimal and Emerson Clarridge contributed to this report.
This story was originally published October 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM.
