{"id":235709,"date":"2026-04-05T05:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235709\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T05:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:09:09","slug":"man-accused-of-shooting-alleged-child-soliciting-suspect-in-the-groin-identified-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235709\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of shooting alleged child\u2011soliciting suspect in the groin identified in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/fort-worth-man-shot-groin-soliciting-children-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shooting another man in the groin at a south Fort Worth apartment complex<\/a> on Friday has now been identified. The person who was shot had been accused of soliciting children for sex shortly before the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Marckus Renfro has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the incident, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/tarrant-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Tarrant County<\/a> Jail records.<\/p>\n<p>The records also show Renfro is facing several other charges from previous cases, including assault causing bodily injury, assault causing bodily injury-family violence, evading arrest or detention, and continuous violence against the family. His total bond is $50,000.<\/p>\n<p>Solicitation report before shooting<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/arrested.png#.png\" alt=\"arrested.png \" height=\"790\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Marckus Renfro \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Tarrant County Jail<\/p>\n<p>Police have not released the name of the man Renfro allegedly shot \u2013 the same man officers say had been soliciting minors for sexual favors before they arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called around 11:43 a.m. Friday to the 3700 block of Century Place after reports of a man who appeared intoxicated and was approaching children with sexual propositions, according to the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Gunshot heard as officers arrived<\/p>\n<p>As officers arrived, they heard a single gunshot. Moments later, they saw a man matching the original suspect description near a convenience store, walking toward nearby apartments. Police then learned that the man had been shot in the groin.<\/p>\n<p>Renfro was detained at the scene, police said. Two other people were present with him, but officers have not identified them and did not say they were detained.<\/p>\n<p>The man who was shot \u2013 identified by police as the original suspect \u2013 was taken to a hospital and is listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will update this story as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of shooting another man in the groin at a south Fort Worth apartment complex on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[294,116,118,117,2238,430,95,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-235709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news","12":"tag-fort-worth-police-department","13":"tag-north-texas","14":"tag-shooting","15":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235709","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=235709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}