{"id":377102,"date":"2026-07-17T19:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377102\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:11:15","slug":"fort-worth-man-arrested-for-capital-murder-after-shooting-wife-and-mother-in-law-in-azle-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377102\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Man Arrested For Capital Murder After Shooting Wife And Mother-in-Law In Azle Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Fort Worth man has been arrested and charged with capital murder after investigators say he fatally shot his wife and mother-in-law inside an Azle home Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers with the Azle Police Department <a data-ylk=\"slk:responded;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1DMZPtPT1F\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">responded<\/a> to a reported suspicious situation around 9:30 a.m. Thursday at a residence in the <a data-ylk=\"slk:200 block of Stewart Bend Court;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/200+Stewart+Bend+Ct,+Azle,+TX+76020\/@32.884772,-97.6376212,12z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x864de24f88a462c7:0x2b0b23600bb7a17e!8m2!3d32.8847675!4d-97.5552237!16s%2Fg%2F11c5m3hfjc?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDcxMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">200 block of Stewart Bend Court<\/a>, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Due to the circumstances, officers entered the home to conduct a welfare check, where they found two adult women \u2014 identified as a mother and daughter \u2014 dead from apparent gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators from the Azle Police Department&#8217;s Criminal Investigation Division worked alongside the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Rangers to identify a suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said evidence collected at the scene, along with information obtained through FLOCK license plate camera technology, led investigators to identify 64-year-old Joseph Morris Gordon, of Fort Worth, as the suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Texas Rangers took Gordon into custody. He is being <a data-ylk=\"slk:held;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/portal-txparker.tylertech.cloud\/PublicAccess\/JailingSearch.aspx?ID=400\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">held<\/a> at the Parker County Jail while being processed on two counts of capital murder, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police identified the victims only as Gordon&#8217;s wife and mother-in-law. Their names have not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation remains active, and authorities said no additional information is being released at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth man has been arrested and charged with capital murder after investigators say he fatally shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[133179,6885,133299,116,118,117,133301,133300,6877,429],"class_list":["post-377102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-azle-police-department","tag-capital-murder","tag-crime-scene-tape","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-joseph-morris-gordon","tag-stewart-bend-court","tag-texas-department-of-public-safety","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377102","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=377102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}