{"id":236671,"date":"2026-04-06T02:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/236671\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T02:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:09:07","slug":"1-injured-suspect-arrested-following-a-friday-shooting-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/236671\/","title":{"rendered":"1 injured, suspect arrested following a Friday shooting in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is in custody for allegedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shooting<\/a> another man he believed was soliciting children for sexual favors Friday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fort-worth\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a>, police said in a statement Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the 3700 block of Century Place after receiving reports of an unidentified possibly intoxicated man suspected of\u00a0 \u201csoliciting minor children for sexual favors,\u201d according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Police heard a single gunshot as they arrived on scene and called it in to dispatch.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified man was taken to a hospital for treatment and is in stable condition as of Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Officers then observed someone who matched the suspected shooter\u2019s description near a convenience store in the area and detained him, the statement said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators learned the man was part of a group of three individuals who allegedly targeted the victim before shooting him in the groin, the statement says.<\/p>\n<p>No further details about the shooting were immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is in custody for allegedly\u00a0shooting another man he believed was soliciting children for sexual favors Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-236671","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236671","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=236671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}