{"id":377224,"date":"2026-07-17T21:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377224\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:01:14","slug":"officer-involved-shooting-in-south-fort-worth-neighborhood-leads-to-womans-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377224\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer-involved shooting in south Fort Worth neighborhood leads to woman&#8217;s arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A woman who was allegedly shooting a gun into trees in a south Fort Worth neighborhood was arrested on Wednesday after a chase led to an officer shooting his weapon in her direction.<\/p>\n<p> Fort Worth PD officer-involved shooting   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/leandra-johnson.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">On July 15 at around 8:45 p.m., Fort Worth Police responded to a shots-fired call in the 1700 block of Belshire Court.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The initial call stated a black female, later identified as 32-year-old Leandra Johnson, was shooting a gun into nearby trees. Johnson reportedly lives in the area where the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/071726-kst-fw-belshire-ct-ois_kdfwdda4_186_mp4_00.01.30.52.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">When officers arrived at the scene, Johnson fled and ignored commands from police.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police say she reached inside a purse she was holding and, fearing she had a weapon, an officer fired his weapon towards Johnson.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Johnson was not hit by the officer&#8217;s gun and was uninjured. She then complied with officers and was arrested.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/071726-kst-fw-belshire-ct-ois_kdfwdda4_186_mp4_00.06.23.08.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers did not find a gun in Johnson&#8217;s purse, but found ammunition matching shell casings found at the scene at Johnson&#8217;s residence.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Johnson has been charged with evading arrest, and has bonded out of the Tarrant County Jail.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Generic-Fort-Worth-police-PD.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It&#8217;s unclear what led to Johnson allegedly shooting a gun into the air.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Fort Worth Police said their investigation into the incident remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story comes from the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/organization\/fort-worth-police\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth Police Department<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A woman who was allegedly shooting a gun into trees in a south Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1046,116,118,117,3737,223,1827,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-377224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377224","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=377224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}