Suspect arrested in shooting death of 29-year-old man at east Fort Worth apartments
A Fort Worth man was in custody Wednesday and accused in the shooting death of another man in east Fort Worth, according to jail records and police reports.
Ezekial Richardson, 29, was booked into the Fort Worth Jail shortly before 5 a.m. Wednesday, facing a charge of murder.
Shortly after the fatal shooting Tuesday evening, Richardson was arrested on an unrelated warrant, Fort Worth police said.
Homicide detectives later booked him into jail in connection with the homicide.
Authorities have not released a motive for the Tuesday evening shooting.
The victim was identified as Quashawn T. Myers, 29, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office website on Wednesday. He died at 10:55 p.m. Tuesday at John Peter Smith Hospital.
The shooting was reported shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday in the 5000 block of Beaty Street.
A caller reported a man had been shot at the Beaty Apartments and a suspect had fled the scene toward East Lancaster Street, according to a police call log.
This story was originally published August 11, 2021 at 6:18 AM.
