{"id":376497,"date":"2026-07-17T05:23:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376497\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T05:23:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:23:38","slug":"fort-worth-officer-fires-at-misses-shooting-suspect-reaching-into-purse-no-gun-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376497\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth officer fires at, misses shooting suspect reaching into purse; no gun found"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Fort Worth police officer on Wednesday night fired a gun one time upon a civilian when the officer feared the woman may have been reaching for a gun inside a purse, according to the police department.<\/p>\n

The woman, Leandra Johnson, 32, was not shot, and no gun was found inside the purse, on Johnson or at her residence, police said.<\/p>\n

Johnson matched a 911 caller’s description of a person shooting a gun about 8:45 p.m. into trees in the 1700 block of Belshire Court in far south Fort Worth, police said. The call taker also reported hearing gunshots.<\/p>\n

Officers tried to approach and detain Johnson, but she ran away, according to police. The officers told Johnson to stop; she allegedly continued running.<\/p>\n

At least one officer saw Johnson begin to reach inside a purse that she was holding, and the officer fired at her, police said.<\/p>\n

Johnson, who police said was not injured, stopped and was taken into custody. She was arrested<\/a> on suspicion of evading arrest.<\/p>\n

Officers wanted to search for a gun at Johnson’s residence. She was running toward the home when she was taken into custody, police said.<\/p>\n

Johnson’s husband declined to leave the residence as officers were trying to execute a search warrant, and SWAT officers went there, police said. Ammunition found inside the residence matched an ejected cartridge casing found at the shots-fired scene, police said.<\/p>\n

Johnson was being held Thursday in the Fort Worth Police Department Detention Facility, according to jail records. A defense attorney representing her in the case is not yet listed in online records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth police officer on Wednesday night fired a gun one time upon a civilian when the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,3737,46232,133142,2086],"class_list":["post-376497","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-johnson","tag-leandra-johnson","tag-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376497","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=376497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}