{"id":295963,"date":"2026-05-16T12:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/295963\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:24:08","slug":"shooting-involving-fort-worth-police-officer-reported-along-i-820-northbound-department-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/295963\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting involving Fort Worth Police officer reported along I-820 Northbound, department says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/fort-worth-police-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Worth Police Department<\/a> is investigating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shooting<\/a> involving an officer just hours after another similar incident unfolded in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The department shared initial details on X around 5 a.m., saying it happened along I-820 Northbound near the exit to East Lancaster Avenue. While more specific details were not immediately available, Fort Worth Police did say the shooting happened after a pursuit. A member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CBS News Texas<\/a> team captured video of the scene, which appeared to be near a construction zone along the interstate.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/820-ois.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"820-ois.jpg \" height=\"304\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Scene of the officer-involved shooting along Northbound I-820 in Fort Worth, Texas, taken on May 16, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Texas<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will update this article as more information is shared.<\/p>\n<p>This shooting happened roughly five hours after the department said an officer shot and killed a man who reportedly pointed a firearm at officers responding to reports of gunfire along Wiman Drive, located in a neighborhood about 4 miles southwest of the scene along I-820. That scene unfolded shortly after midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fort Worth Police Department is investigating a shooting involving an officer just hours after another similar incident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[116,2238,7301,95,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-295963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-police-department","tag-police-shooting","tag-shooting","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295963","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=295963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}