{"id":256302,"date":"2026-04-19T00:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256302\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T00:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:50:07","slug":"fort-worth-police-were-searching-for-a-missing-person-but-it-led-to-a-capital-murder-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256302\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth police were searching for a missing person, but it led to a capital murder charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Fort Worth Police Department, the suspect confessed to shooting the victim and stealing his car.<\/p>\n<p>FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 The Fort Worth Police Department&#8217;s missing persons unit began an investigation on Tuesday, but by Friday, the case became a murder investigation as the victim&#8217;s body was found in a field, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>FWPD says police were first notified about the missing person after he didn&#8217;t return home from work on Monday night. The victim&#8217;s car was later found at a Quality Inn in Arlington.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they reviewed motel surveillance footage on Wednesday, where they saw an unknown person, who later became the suspect, arrive at the motel with the victim&#8217;s car after he left work.<\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives took over the investigation on Thursday, police say. Detectives identified the suspect, 34-year-old Gregory D. Lewis, arresting him on unrelated charges.<\/p>\n<p>The victim&#8217;s body was found Friday on the east side of Fort Worth in an open field, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police say Lewis later confessed to shooting and killing the victim and stealing his car. The victim and the suspect reportedly worked together. Detectives plan to file a capital murder charge against Lewis, who is currently in custody, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The Tarrant County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office will identify the victim, as well as determine the cause and manner of his death, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Fort Worth Police Department, the suspect confessed to shooting the victim and stealing his car.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-256302","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\/256302","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=256302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}