{"id":340256,"date":"2026-06-17T20:04:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/340256\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T20:04:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:04:04","slug":"reported-police-chase-ends-in-fatal-west-loop-820-crash-in-fort-worth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/340256\/","title":{"rendered":"Reported Police Chase Ends In Fatal West Loop 820 Crash In Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Update to original story: North Richland Hills police said the chase was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/video\/news\/local\/theft-at-walmart-leads-to-police-chase-police-say-suspect-took-his-life\/287-1f773c94-7449-41b7-b57b-a8100644c802\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:initiated;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;initiated&quot;}\" class=\"link \">initiated<\/a> over a reported theft at a Walmart store on NE Loop 820. After the suspect\u2019s vehicle crashed, police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/197XvSFNzW\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:found;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;found&quot;}\" class=\"link \">found<\/a> the 58-year-old driver slumped over with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The Fort Worth Police Department is investigating the man\u2019s death, according to a news release by NRH police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A reported police chase that began with North Richland Hills officers ended in a fatal single-vehicle crash on southbound West Loop 820 in Fort Worth, according to a North Texas scanner account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Scanner Traffic Fort Worth reported that a theft suspect fled from officers as they approached to detain him. The account said the pursuit ended when the suspect\u2019s vehicle struck a guardrail at about 100 mph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash happened on southbound West Loop 820, where lanes remained closed after the wreck, according to the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video shared by the account appeared to show a nighttime highway scene with heavy emergency vehicle activity and flashing lights near the crash location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No other vehicles were involved, according to the scanner account.<\/p>\n<p>Details Pending<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities had not released the suspect\u2019s identity or additional details about the pursuit as of Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials also had not confirmed whether any officers or bystanders were injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident remains developing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update to original story: North Richland Hills police said the chase was initiated over a reported theft at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[121359,520,32249,116,118,117,2238,10144,5298,121358,105912],"class_list":["post-340256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-emergency-lights","tag-fatal-crash","tag-flashing-lights","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police-department","tag-north-richland-hills","tag-police-chase","tag-reported-theft","tag-west-loop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340256","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=340256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}