{"id":283303,"date":"2026-05-07T20:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/283303\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T20:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:08:13","slug":"man-stabbed-in-west-fort-worth-in-possible-case-of-mistaken-identity-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/283303\/","title":{"rendered":"Man stabbed in west Fort Worth in possible case of mistaken identity, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Fort Worth Star-Telegram;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Fort Worth Star-Telegram\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"272\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-02\/a00d18d0-6a21-11eb-bff5-9950f532eca7.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Thu, May 7, 2026 at 3:14 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"631\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_fort_worth_star_telegram_mcclatchy_844\/6cb2a0795b859e69f93ac48df95bbf.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A 52-year-old man was stabbed and injured in west Fort Worth on Wednesday night. Police say the victim may have been mistaken for another person.<\/p>\n<p> (Courtesy: Fort Worth police)<\/p>\n<p>A 52-year-old man was stabbed and injured Wednesday night in west Fort Worth in what may have been a case of mistaken identity, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the 2800 block of Las Vegas Trail shortly before 7 p.m. They found a man who\u2019d been stabbed multiple times, according to police. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment and is expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary information indicated the stabbing victim may have been mistaken for another person, police said.<\/p>\n<p>William Johnson was later arrested in connection with the attack. The 54-year-old suspect was booked into the Fort Worth City Jail early Thursday and faces a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to police records.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 More breaking news:<\/p>\n<p> \u25fd\ufe0f Sign up for Star-Telegram <a data-ylk=\"slk:news alerts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/newsletters?newsletter=fortworth_breaking_newsletter\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">news alerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thu, May 7, 2026 at 3:14 PM UTC A 52-year-old man was stabbed and injured in west Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[104272,116,118,117,7224,104273],"class_list":["post-283303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-case-of-mistaken-identity","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-police-records","tag-william-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283303","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=283303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}