{"id":108143,"date":"2026-01-02T04:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/108143\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:10:23","slug":"argument-at-fort-worth-business-ends-with-security-guard-fatally-shooting-woman-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/108143\/","title":{"rendered":"Argument at Fort Worth business ends with security guard fatally shooting woman, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What began as an argument at a business in east <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/fort-worth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Fort Worth<\/a> escalated into a deadly confrontation Thursday afternoon, when a security guard shot and killed a woman, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police and paramedics were called to the scene in the 2600 block of Riverside Drive south of I-30 around 5:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, they found a female victim with a gunshot wound to the chest. A Fort Worth Fire medical team worked on the woman, but she was pronounced dead on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police detail events leading up to east Fort Worth shooting<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the suspect, who works as a security guard at the business, was arguing with the victim, who was trying to leave.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The victim advanced towards the suspect, who then pepper-sprayed the victim,&#8221; police said in a news release. &#8220;The victim retrieved a stabbing weapon from nearby and advanced towards the suspect, who then fired his sidearm striking the victim.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The security guard was detained, but has not been arrested at this point, according to police. He is cooperating with homicide detectives, who are continuing their investigation, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The name of the victim will be released by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What began as an argument at a business in east Fort Worth escalated into a deadly confrontation Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,2238,430,95],"class_list":{"0":"post-108143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news","11":"tag-fort-worth-police-department","12":"tag-north-texas","13":"tag-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}