Fort Worth police arrested a suspect following a shooting early Sunday morning, Sept. 20, where two people were killed and two were injured.
Cesar Palomo, 23, was arrested Sunday evening and is facing a charge of capital murder of multiple persons. He was injured in the shooting and remains hospitalized Monday, according to police records.
Police arrested Palomo hours after responding to an early morning shooting in the backyard of a home in the 4300 block of Martin Drive, in southeast Fort Worth.
When police arrived at the home at around 3:30 a.m., they learned that a man and woman who knew one another were fighting. Another man intervened, and the two men began fighting, pulled out handguns and began firing, according to information from police.
The man who intervened and another man were pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Palomo and another wounded man were taken to hospitals, and their conditions were unknown, according to police.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office identified one man who died as 24-year-old Jose Alejandro Valladolid. The identity of the second man who died has not been released publicly.
Anyone with information is asked to call Fort Worth police at 817-392-4222.