Fort Worth police investigate fatal overnight shooting, city’s 4th homicide this week
Fort Worth police are investigating a shooting that killed a man late Tuesday night.
Officers responded to John Peter Smith Hospital about 11:50 p.m. after learning that a shooting victim had been brought to the emergency room. The man was shot twice in the upper torso and died at the hospital, police said in a news release Wednesday.
Homicide detectives are interviewing the people who took the victim to the hospital and trying to find out where the shooting occurred. The suspect or suspects are still at large, according to the release.
The man who died will be publicly identified by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office pending notification of next of kin.
Anyone with information about the fatal shooting is asked to contact the Fort Worth Police Department Homicide Unit at 817-392-4330. Anonymous tips can be submitted to Tarrant County Crime Stoppers at 817-469-8477 or online.
Three Fort Worth homicides on Sunday
The other three homicides this week all occurred on Sunday.
A man who was shot multiple times was found about 11 p.m. Sunday lying on the ground at the edge of Carter Park in south Fort Worth, according to a Police Department spokesperson.
About 12 hours before the Carter Park killing, a man was found shot to death at a condominium in the 4000 block of Ridglea Country Club Drive in west Fort Worth, police said.
About 4:30 a.m. Sunday, a man was shot to death during an argument in a parking lot near a nightclub in the 2300 block of South Riverside Drive, police said. A second person who was shot at the same time survived.
The assailants in each of the killings left the scenes before officers arrived, and police have not announced arrests in the homicides.
