Police arrest man in fatal shooting of Marine outside Fort Worth warehouse
Police on Tuesday arrested a suspect on suspicion of murder in the March killing of a man at a party at a warehouse in northwest Fort Worth.
Jayden Garcia, 18, was booked in the shooting death of Lyndon Clay, who was in a large group of people gathered in a parking lot in the 1200 block of Northwest 35th Street on March 1. A fight broke out, and Clay and another person were shot, Fort Worth police have said. The second shooting victim survived. Clay was 19.
Police have not publicly described evidence they say supports Garcia’s arrest.
Clay was at the scene pronounced dead from a gunshot wound to the chest, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Clay served in the Marines after he graduated from high school and was preparing to start a new job in Dallas, according to an online post soliciting donations to his relatives.
“He was a bright young man with a promising future ahead of him — he had just been hired by Texas Health Dallas and was set to start his new job in March,” the GoFundMe post’s author wrote. “Lyndon was also a proud Marine and a dedicated college student. He would have celebrated his 20th birthday in April 2026.”
Clay was a 2024 graduate of Uplift Wisdom Preparatory in Dallas, according to a 2025 Instagram post in which the school celebrated his military service.
