{"id":242668,"date":"2026-04-09T22:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242668\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:26:20","slug":"fort-worth-woman-shoots-boyfriend-2-neighbors-who-tried-to-intervene-in-fight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242668\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth woman shoots boyfriend, 2 neighbors who tried to intervene in fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A woman was detained Wednesday night after shooting her boyfriend and two neighbors during a physical fight in a North Fort Worth cul-de-sac.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police arrived at the 5100 block of Persimmon Court to find three victims, two of whom remain in critical condition and one in serious condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators believe the gunfire erupted after residents attempted to intervene in a domestic argument occurring near a parked car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A woman shot three men, including her boyfriend, during a physical altercation Wednesday night in a Fort Worth neighborhood, according to police.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Dashana Ballard&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3af1a0e8fdf12f0af890ebdfdedfd5a6.jpeg\"\/>3 men shot in Fort Worth neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fort Worth police responded to a shooting call around 8 p.m. in the 5100 block of Persimmon Court. The location is in the Woodland Springs neighborhood, west of Highway 377 and north of Keller Hicks Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers arrived to find three men suffering from gunshot wounds. All three victims were transported to a local hospital. Officials stated that two of the men are in critical condition, while the third is in serious condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">29-year-old Dashana Ballard was arrested at the scene and faces multiple charges, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The backstory<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators determined the incident began as an argument between a man and a woman in a relationship near a parked car in a cul-de-sac. Neighbors who heard the commotion approached the vehicle to intervene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The situation escalated into a physical fight involving the couple and the residents. During the struggle, the woman involved in the initial argument pulled out a handgun and opened fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She shot her boyfriend and two of the men who had approached the car. Police detained the woman at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While detectives work to determine exactly what triggered the violence, officials believe this was an isolated incident and said there is no ongoing threat to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is unclear what started the argument or altercation. We do not have the identities of the victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information in this article comes from Fort Worth police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A woman was detained Wednesday night after shooting her boyfriend and two neighbors during a physical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[980,116,118,117,3737,92850],"class_list":{"0":"post-242668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-critical-condition","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news","12":"tag-fort-worth-police","13":"tag-physical-fight"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242668","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=242668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}