Murder suspect arrested in West 7th nightclub shooting, Fort Worth police say
A murder suspect in Sunday’s shooting that killed a man and wounded five people at a West 7th district nightclub was arrested Wednesday night following a standoff with SWAT officers, Fort Worth police said.
Police Chief Eddie Garcia announced that the suspect, 20-year-old Akrell Ross, was tracked down by the department’s fugitive task force.
Ross barricaded himself in a residence in the 5400 block of Huffines Boulevard, in northwest Fort Worth, about 7 p.m. After SWAT officers and negotiators responded, he was taken into custody without further incident, police said.
Homicide detectives have said that they believe the shooting early Sunday at nightclub Social LIVV on Bledsoe Street was gang-related.
Patrique Allen, 31, was killed in the shooting, and investigators believe he was targeted because of his gang affiliations. The five surviving victims were bystanders, police said.
In their preliminary investigation, homicide detectives determined that multiple suspects fired handguns inside the bar.
Investigators said that the suspects in the shooting are documented gang members and that there is a history of a feud between the involved parties. Allen was a member of the Eastside Gorillas and Truman Street Bloods gangs, the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office alleged in a document filed in a capital murder case in which he was convicted of murder.
Ross is the first suspect to be arrested in the Social LIVV shooting. He was booked into the city jail shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday.
“This is still an active investigation and as further details become available, they will be provided,” Garcia wrote in a post on X. “BIG THANKS to SWAT, DRU, patrol officers, fugitive, homicide & negotiators for your amazing work!”
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 an Indian college student who was working at a gas station during a reported robbery.
A fifth homicide occurred Monday night, when a man was stabbed to death during a fight at a convenience store on Camp Bowie West Boulevard, police said.
Staff writers Emerson Clarridge and Shambhavi Rimal contributed to this report.
This story was originally published October 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM.
