{"id":378112,"date":"2026-07-18T19:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T19:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378112\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T19:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T19:12:19","slug":"fort-worth-man-charged-with-capital-murder-in-azle-double-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378112\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Man Charged With Capital Murder In Azle Double Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Officers with the Azle Police Department responded<\/a> to a reported suspicious situation around 9:30 a.m. Thursday at a residence in the 200 block of Stewart Bend Court<\/a>, according to police.<\/p>\n

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

Investigators from the Azle Police Department\u2019s Criminal Investigation Division worked alongside the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Rangers to identify a suspect.<\/p>\n

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

The Texas Rangers took Gordon into custody. He is being held<\/a> at the Parker County Jail while being processed on two counts of capital murder, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Police identified the victims only as Gordon\u2019s wife and mother-in-law. Their names have not been released.<\/p>\n

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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[133687,133179,133690,67052,116,118,133689,117,133178,133688,133686,133300,6877,429,133691],"class_list":["post-378112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-azle-double-murder","tag-azle-police-department","tag-azle-texas-shooting","tag-double-murder","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-man-capital-murder","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-joseph-gordon","tag-joseph-morris-gordon-arrest","tag-parker-county-jail","tag-stewart-bend-court","tag-texas-department-of-public-safety","tag-texas-rangers","tag-wife-mother-in-law-killed-azle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378112","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=378112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}