Fort Worth police have made an arrest in connection with the death of a 9-year-old child in February that was recently ruled a homicide, according to a statement.<\/p>\n
Officers were dispatched to the 1900 block of Daniel Street about 3:14 a.m. on Feb. 8. Once there, police found a girl, identified as Joanna\u00a0Jordyn Shoulder, lying on the floor while someone administered CPR.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fort Worth Fire Department officials responded,\u00a0stabilized Joanna and transported her to the hospital, where she died at 4:01 a.m.<\/p>\n
After a doctor told officers that Joanna \u201cappeared to have extensive bruising,\u201d homicide detectives were called to the scene to investigate and conduct interviews.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police requested Joanna\u2019s autopsy from the\u00a0Tarrant County medical examiner\u2019s office, which they received last week, according to the statement. According to the autopsy, Joanna’s cause of death was blunt force injuries.<\/p>\n
Police arrested a 35-year-old man Tuesday\u00a0about 6:20 p.m. He faces a charge of capital murder of a person under 10 years of age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth police have made an arrest in connection with the death of a 9-year-old child in February…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-349038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349038","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=349038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}