After punch, woman took pistol from purse, shot boyfriend dead: Fort Worth cops
A quarrel erupted between Delante Washington and his girlfriend on the floating bridge that spans Lake Como in Fort Worth as the couple crossed.
The argument heightened in the early evening on New Year’s Eve, and Washington, who had been in a relationship with Alisha Browley for about four years, hit her one time in the face, Browley and witnesses would tell police. Her nose bled.
In the next minutes, they moved away from one another, police concluded.
Washington was standing on the west edge of a sitting area.
Browley was standing on the east edge of the area.
The sitting area, in the middle of the floating bridge at Lake Como Park, is about 15 feet across.
Browley would later tell police that she removed her pistol from her purse, deactivated the safety and fired several shots toward Washington, killing him, according to an affidavit prepared by police to support an arrest warrant for murder.
Fort Worth Police Department Homicide Unit detectives Jed Miller and Norman Abrams interviewed Browley, who is 29, at a hospital.
In the determination of the detectives, a self-defense argument does not have merit. They arrested Browley on suspicion of murder.
Washington hit Browley one time in the face several minutes before she shot him multiple times in the presence of witnesses who saw Washington, who was 35, standing quietly on the bridge before he was shot, Detective Miller wrote in the affidavit.
“Alisha used deadly force despite not being threatened with imminent harm,” Miller wrote.
Browley headed back to the east end of the floating bridge and asked a jogger to call 911 after she shot Washington, who had taken her phone, according to the affidavit.
The nature of the argument is not referenced in the affidavit. A judge set Browley’s bond at $250,000. She remained in the Tarrant County Jail on Tuesday.
This story was originally published January 6, 2026 at 5:20 PM.
