The Brief<\/p>\n
One person was killed and another injured after an argument broke out in a Fort Worth nightclub parking lot shortly after closing early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
The shooter fled the scene before law enforcement arrived, prompting a Fort Worth Police Homicide Unit investigation.<\/p>\n
The second victim is hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, while the identity of the deceased is currently withheld pending verification by the medical examiner.<\/p>\n
FORT WORTH, Texas – One person was killed and another was injured in a shooting at a nightclub parking lot early Sunday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Deadly nightclub parking lot fight<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
Fort Worth Police Department officers from the Central Division responded to reports of a shooting in the 2300 block of South Riverside Drive at 4:30 a.m. Arriving officers and personnel from the Fort Worth Fire Department immediately administered medical aid to the victims.<\/p>\n
A preliminary investigation indicates that an argument broke out in the parking lot of a nearby nightclub shortly after the venue closed. During the argument, a suspect produced a firearm and fired multiple shots, striking two people.<\/p>\n
One victim died at the scene. A second victim was taken via private vehicle to the hospital, and is expected to survive.<\/p>\n
The suspect or suspects left the area before law enforcement arrived. Detectives with the Fort Worth Police Homicide Unit have taken the lead on the investigation.<\/p>\n
The identity of the deceased, along with the official cause and manner of death, will be determined and released by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
What you can do<\/p>\n
Authorities are asking anyone who witnessed the shooting or possesses information about the case to contact the Fort Worth Police Department at 817-392-4222. Anonymous tips can also be submitted through Tarrant County Crime Stoppers at 817-469-TIPS (8477) or online at 469tips.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Source<\/p>\n Information in this article is from the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief One person was killed and another injured after an argument broke out in a Fort Worth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,3737,14039],"class_list":["post-336454","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-fort-worth-police","tag-nightclub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336454","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=336454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}