{"id":315346,"date":"2026-05-30T10:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/315346\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:54:18","slug":"gofundme-organized-for-teen-fatally-shot-in-fort-worth-road-rage-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/315346\/","title":{"rendered":"GoFundMe organized for teen fatally shot in Fort Worth road rage incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Geovani Rocha had his whole life ahead of him and dreamed of starting a landscaping business, according to a GoFundMe organized to cover the teen\u2019s funeral expenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 17-year-old was fatally shot in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/fort-worth\/article315875846.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:a road rage incident;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;a road rage incident&quot;}\" class=\"link \">a road rage incident<\/a> in south Fort Worth the night of May 23. His family told KDFW-TV that he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/fort-worth-road-rage-shooting-victim-just-finished-junior-year-of-high-school\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:on his way to get a late-night snack.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;on his way to get a late-night snack.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">on his way to get a late-night snack.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI know that nothing will be the same anymore,\u201d Estefani Rocha, the victim\u2019s older sister, told KDFW.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The teen had just finished his junior year at Dunbar High School, according to KDFW. He\u2019d even had business cards printed up to promote his lawn care service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jose Camargo Madrigal was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article315883772.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:charged with Rocha\u2019s murder;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;charged with Rocha\u2019s murder&quot;}\" class=\"link \">charged with Rocha\u2019s murder<\/a>. The 41-year-old is being held in the Tarrant County Jail, and a judge has denied his bond, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Camargo Madrigal\u2019s arrest warrant affidavit, the shooting took place shortly before 11:40 p.m. Rocha\u2019s younger brother and a friend, who were traveling with the victim but were not injured, told police they\u2019d just gotten into a collision with a Chevrolet Avalanche.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Moments later, the two vehicles stopped for a red light at the intersection of Mansfield Highway and Seminary Drive. Someone in the Avalanche starting shooting into the Chevrolet Silverado that Rocha was riding in, and the 17-year-old was struck in the head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators found multiple bullet holes in the Silverado\u2019s tailgate and back windshield, the affidavit states. The headrest of the front passenger seat where Rocha was sitting was damaged, and several 9 mm cartridge casings were found near the Mansfield Highway and Seminary Drive intersection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers tracked down the Avalanche using license plate-reading cameras and learned it was registered to Camargo Madrigal. Police stopped the suspect about 7:45 a.m. on May 24 when the vehicle he was a passenger in failed to stop at a stop sign, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Camargo Madrigal told detectives he and his family were on the way to buy baby formula when they got into a collision with a pickup on Mansfield Highway. They continued driving north, but later stopped at the intersection of Mansfield Highway and Seminary Drive for a red light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the affidavit, Camargo Madrigal admitted getting out of the Avalanche and firing several shots from a handgun into the back of the pickup. He was initially arrested on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The charge was upgraded to murder after Rocha died at John Peter Smith Hospital the night of May 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/in-memory-of-geovani-rocha\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:The GoFundMe for Rocha;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;The GoFundMe for Rocha&quot;}\" class=\"link \">The GoFundMe for Rocha<\/a> had raised more than $10,000 toward the $11,000 goal as of Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\ud83d\udea8 More breaking news:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u25fd\ufe0f Sign up for Star-Telegram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/newsletters?newsletter=fortworth_breaking_newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:news alerts;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;news alerts&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> news alerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geovani Rocha had his whole life ahead of him and dreamed of starting a landscaping business, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[113378,113376,116,118,117,111718,50791,113377],"class_list":["post-315346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-chevrolet-avalanche","tag-estefani-rocha","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-geovani-rocha","tag-seminary-drive","tag-starting-a-landscaping-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315346","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=315346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}