Fort Worth officers fatally shoot two men; one pointed gun, other grabbed gun: police
Fort Worth police officers shot to death two men in related encounters at separate locations early Saturday.
The first was a man holding a gun in the 4200 block of Wiman Drive in east Fort Worth, the chief of the city’s police department, Eddie Garcia, said. People in the area, where a party was being held, had heard shots about midnight and summoned police.
Officers confronted the suspect and ordered him to drop the gun, Garcia said. The man did not obey the commands and pointed his gun toward the officers, the chief said. One or more officers shot the man to death. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office identified him as 25-year-old Emmitt Elijah Mayo, a local rap artist who performed under the name 88Dub.
Mayo’s father and a friend who witnessed the shooting disputed the police account, saying that Mayo did not point a gun at officers. The rapper had a gun in his hand because he was defending himself after shots were fired during a dispute over not being paid for his planned performance at the party, they said.
Four hours later, as officers were working at the Wiman Drive scene, a sport utility vehicle drove by multiple times at a high rate of speed. It appeared the driver was trying to hit officers standing near their vehicles, Garcia said.
Officers tried to stop the SUV, pursued it for about 15 minutes and eventually stopped it by hitting it with a police vehicle, causing it to spin in the northbound lanes of Loop 820 near the East Lancaster Avenue exit.
The driver did not comply with officers’ orders and grabbed an officer’s drawn handgun, Garcia said. Multiple officers opened fire, killing the man, Garcia said.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the second man who was killed as 29-year-old Jorge Contreras.
When asked whether the two men who were killed knew each other, a police spokesman said he had no updated information.
An officer was injured during the Loop 820 encounter and was taken to a hospital. It is not known how the officer was injured, police said. The officer is listed in good condition.
Major Case Unit detectives are investigating the shootings. The department typically releases portions of body-worn camera recordings to the public within a week of a shooting in which an officer shoots a civilian.
Police will hold a news conference on Friday, May 22, to share updates on the investigation of both shootings.
In October 2022, two blocks from the Saturday Wiman Drive shooting scene, a SWAT sniper shot to death Taylor Grimes with a rifle, according to the Fort Worth Police Department. Grimes, 29, had damaged his mother’s house with a hammer and refused to come out of the house when officers arrived. When he later came out, Grimes pointed a handgun at officers, according to the police department.
This story was originally published May 16, 2026 at 2:01 PM.
