{"id":234458,"date":"2026-04-04T03:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/234458\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:26:19","slug":"man-shot-in-groin-after-reportedly-asking-children-for-sex-fort-worth-police-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/234458\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot in groin after reportedly asking children for sex, Fort Worth police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to his groin after he was reportedly asking children for sexual favors at a Fort Worth apartment complex, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the Fort Worth Police Department, officers were called at about 11:43 a.m. Friday to the 3700 block of Century Place in response to the individual reportedly asking for sexual favors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Upon arrival, police say officers heard a single gunshot. They then reportedly saw someone matching the description of the suspect by a convenience store walking toward the apartments.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man, who hasn&#8217;t been identified, was arrested, and police say they learned he had been shot in the groin by a group of three people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One of the three people is now in custody, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police took the victim to a nearby hospital for treatment, officials say, where he&#8217;s in stable condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to his groin after he was reportedly asking children for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[670,116,118,117,2238,6994,90555],"class_list":{"0":"post-234458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-children","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news","12":"tag-fort-worth-police-department","13":"tag-gunshot-wound","14":"tag-sexual-favors"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234458","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=234458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}