The family of a 28-year-old man who died in a crash after a pursuit with Fort Worth police on Monday, March 2, says they want answers.
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The family of a 28-year-old man who died in a crash after a pursuit with Fort Worth police on Monday night says they want answers.
Family members identified the man as Kendrick Gibson and said he was a father of six, according to Star-Telegram media partner WFAA-TV.
Police said that the chase began when officers tried to stop a car they believed was involved in an aggravated kidnapping. The driver refused to comply, according to police, and officers pursued the vehicle as it headed north on Interstate 35W.
The driver lost control after taking the Pharr Street exit near downtown and slammed into a concrete pillar under the overpass, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Gibson was alone in the car, and no one else was injured in the crash. Police haven’t said why they believed the vehicle was involved in a kidnapping. Gibson’s family told WFAA that they’re questioning the narrative about the kidnapping and don’t think the 28-year-old father was involved.
“If this were an alleged kidnapping, where is the victim in this?” said Gibson’s cousin Asia Taylor. “I don’t feel like they were very forthcoming with what actually transpired.”
Gibson had just left his grandmother’s house in Fort Worth when he was stopped by police, WFAA reported.
Taylor told WFAA that the family wants to see dashboard-camera videos of the incident and want the police to be completely transparent about what took place.
The mother of Gibson’s children, Juanita Moreno, was talking with him on the phone when police stopped him. She told WFAA that Gibson asked the officers several times why they had pulled him over, and she could hear the fear in his voice.
“The next thing you know, we just hear a loud bang, like if somebody T-boned him,” Moreno said.
Police said in a news release Tuesday that the Traffic Investigation Unit and Major Case Unit are actively investigating the incident and “detectives are working to confirm the circumstances leading up to the pursuit.”
“We will follow up with additional details after detectives have had time to conduct their investigation,” the release said.
The crash was one of two on Monday in which a driver was killed while being pursued by Fort Worth police. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the driver who died in a crash on Camp Bowie Boulevard as 33-year-old Sam Chavarria. Police said officers chased Chavarria after he fled from the scene of a hit-and-run on I-30.
This story was originally published March 4, 2026 at 12:38 PM.
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