{"id":234617,"date":"2026-04-04T05:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/234617\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:55:23","slug":"man-asking-children-for-sex-at-fort-worth-apartments-is-shot-in-groin-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/234617\/","title":{"rendered":"Man asking children for sex at Fort Worth apartments is shot in groin, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man was shot on Friday after he solicited children for sexual favors outside a south Fort Worth apartment complex, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was shot in the groin by a person in a group of three people, according to a Fort Worth police spokesperson. The shooting victim was taken to a hospital and was stable on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers arriving about 11:45 a.m. to investigate the solicitation report heard a single gunshot.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Near a convenience store close to the apartment complex, officers saw someone who matched the description of the man who was soliciting and discovered he had been shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The apartment complex, known as Carlyle Crossing, is in the 3700 block of Century Place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One of the three people in the shooter\u2019s group is in police custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man who was shot was possibly under the influence, according to the person who reported the soliciting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\ud83d\udea8 More breaking news:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u25fd\ufe0f Sign up for Star-Telegram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/newsletters?newsletter=fortworth_breaking_newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:news alerts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;news alerts&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> news alerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was shot on Friday after he solicited children for sexual favors outside a south Fort Worth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,3737,38830,90555],"class_list":{"0":"post-234617","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","12":"tag-police-spokesperson","13":"tag-sexual-favors"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234617","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=234617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}