{"id":237867,"date":"2026-04-06T23:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237867\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T23:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:28:09","slug":"juvenile-suspect-in-fort-worth-killing-ordered-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237867\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile suspect in Fort Worth killing ordered detained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/breakingphoto.jpeg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters\" alt=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters<\/p>\n<p>            Pexels<\/p>\n<p>Police on Sunday arrested a 16-year-old on suspicion of manslaughter after, they allege, he recklessly fired a pistol inside a southwest Fort Worth apartment building and fatally shot a boy of the same age.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter reported that he and Jaydon Jones had been \u201cplaying all day\u201d with the gun and that the shooting was an accident, according to a Fort Worth police account that state district Judge Alex Kim read aloud during a detention hearing on Monday in the 323rd District Court in Tarrant County.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Kim ordered that the shooter remain held in the county\u2019s juvenile detention center.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was shot at The Nolan apartments in the 6600 block of South Hulen Street, according to the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tcbpm.appianportalsgov.com\/mepublicportal\">Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, who was shot in the torso, was pronounced dead at the scene about 5:45 p.m. The shooter was detained there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published April 6, 2026 at 5:38 PM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/230256844\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/EmersonClarridge_Profile.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Emerson Clarridge\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/230256844\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emerson Clarridge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Emerson Clarridge covers crime and other breaking news for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He works days and reports on law enforcement affairs in Tarrant County. He previously was a reporter at the Omaha World-Herald and the Observer-Dispatch in Utica, New York.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters Pexels Police on Sunday arrested a 16-year-old on suspicion of manslaughter after,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-237867","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\/237867","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=237867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}