Gunman still sought in Fort Worth backyard slaying

Police continued to search Thursday for the gunman who fatally shot a 33-year-old man in the back yard of a north side residence.

Jeremiah Harvey was pronounced dead at 5:25 p.m. Wednesday, the Tarrant County medical examiner reported. He was shot in the chest and abdomen.

Fort Worth police found the body in the back yard of a house in the 1200 block of North Commerce Street.

Homicide detectives learned that the victim and another person were in a fight in the back yard where they both “produced handguns and fired numerous shots at each other,” officer Tamra Pena, a police spokeswoman, wrote in an email.

The gunman did not appear to have been shot and fled the scene, she said.

Neighbors of the house close to the QuikTrip convenience store at North Main Street and East Northside Drive said they heard at least five gunshots and then saw a small, white tow truck take off along the road toward Northeast 11th Street.

Lt. Glenn Verrett, a police spokesman at the scene Wednesday night, confirmed that investigators were looking for the tow truck driver.

Police did not disclose the relationship between the suspect and the victim, if they knew it.

Officials did not report Harvey’s place of residence as of Thursday night.

— Monica S. Nagy

This story was originally published August 6, 2015 at 10:17 PM with the headline "Gunman still sought in Fort Worth backyard slaying."