{"id":386595,"date":"2026-07-25T21:48:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386595\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:48:34","slug":"arlington-police-search-for-gunman-in-fatal-friday-night-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386595\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington police search for gunman in fatal Friday night shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785016114_38_092125-sh-arlington-pd-shooting-galleria-dr_kdfw6b_00.16.51.56.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ARLINGTON, Texas &#8211; A 54-year-old man was fatally shot Friday night while driving in Arlington, and police are searching for the person responsible.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Arlington police officers responded around 8:43 p.m. to reports of gunfire near the intersection of Highlander Boulevard and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, according to the Arlington Police Department.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">When officers arrived, they found a pickup truck that had left the roadway and come to rest in a grassy area near the southwest corner of the intersection. The driver was unresponsive and had multiple apparent gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Witnesses told investigators they saw the driver of another vehicle fire multiple shots at the victim before fleeing westbound on Highlander Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police said detectives are following several leads, but no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Tarrant County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office will identify the victim after notifying next of kin.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective VanTreeck at 817-459-5691 or Crime Stoppers of Tarrant County at 817-469-8477 to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article was provided by Arlington Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/arlington\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arlington<\/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> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article ARLINGTON, Texas &#8211; A 54-year-old man was fatally shot Friday night while driving in Arlington, and police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1046,223,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-386595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386595","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=386595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}