{"id":334048,"date":"2026-06-12T19:53:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/334048\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T19:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:53:29","slug":"pedestrian-fatally-struck-by-suspected-drunk-driver-in-east-fort-worth-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/334048\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian fatally struck by suspected drunk driver in east Fort Worth: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A pedestrian was fatally struck by a suspected drunk driver while crossing an east Fort Worth street Thursday night, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash occurred about 7 p.m. in the 4000 block of E. Rosedale Street. The pedestrian was trying to cross the road at the Chicago Avenue intersection when the victim was hit by a speeding car, police said. The pedestrian landed on top of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to police, the vehicle continued down the street for a time before stopping in the parking lot of Fort Worth Seafood Fish Market and Restaurant at the corner of Rosedale and Miller Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The pedestrian was pronounced dead shortly after 7:30 p.m., police said. The driver was evaluated at the scene by a DWI unit and arrested on an intoxication manslaughter charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect was booked into the Fort Worth City Jail. Police records identify him as 35-year-old Jory Durst. Authorities haven\u2019t yet released the name of the person who died.<\/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":"A pedestrian was fatally struck by a suspected drunk driver while crossing an east Fort Worth street Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,119416],"class_list":["post-334048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-the-pedestrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334048","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=334048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}