{"id":173726,"date":"2026-02-21T02:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173726\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T02:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:04:14","slug":"robbery-suspect-shot-by-victim-in-fort-worth-police-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173726\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbery suspect shot by victim in Fort Worth, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A suspected robber was shot by his intended victim during a late-night confrontation Wednesday on White Dove Drive in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect was hospitalized for his injuries and then taken into police custody upon his release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect\u2019s identity and specific charges have not yet been released by authorities as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A man was shot after allegedly trying to rob another man in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fort Worth police said they got a call around 11 p.m. on Wednesday about a man with a gunshot wound in the 6000 block of White Dove Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After he was taken to the hospital, police determined that he was actually the suspect in a prior attempted robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim told police a man approached him and attempted to rob him, so he pulled out a firearm and shot the would-be robber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The injured suspect was taken into custody after being released from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There\u2019s no word yet on the suspect\u2019s name or what charges he\u2019s facing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The information in this story comes from the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A suspected robber was shot by his intended victim during a late-night confrontation Wednesday on White&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,2238,18945],"class_list":["post-173726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police-department","tag-police-custody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173726","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=173726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}