{"id":381653,"date":"2026-07-22T00:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381653\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T00:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:07:22","slug":"fort-worth-civilian-officer-back-on-duty-months-after-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381653\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth civilian officer back on duty months after shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Fort Worth civilian police employee <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article315631485.html\">injured in the line of duty<\/a> in April has returned to work, according to the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Civilian Response Unit Specialist and Marine Corps veteran Edward Zapata was shot in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/article315612760.html\">eye while responding to a robbery call<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now three months later, he is back taking service calls and serving the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are inspired by Zapata\u2019s determination and commitment, and we are thrilled to have him back out there!\u201d the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/750016216_1388244973219218_5615191641783179375_n.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" title=\"750016216_1388244973219218_5615191641783179375_n.jpeg\" alt=\"Edward Zapata has returned to work after being injured in the line of duty in April.\"\/>                                                                                    Edward Zapata has returned to work after being injured in the line of duty in April.                                                                                                                                                                        Courtesy of the Fort Worth Police Department                                                                                        <\/p>\n<p>He was welcomed back by his colleagues with a surprise party at the North Division, and he was given a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/18e9yhxV1z\/\">quilt from Quilts for Cops.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quilts for Cops gives quilts to police officers injured in the line of duty, according to the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth civilian police employee injured in the line of duty in April has returned to work,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-381653","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\/381653","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=381653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}