{"id":387073,"date":"2026-07-26T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387073\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:34:08","slug":"fort-worth-police-shoot-knife-wielding-man-outside-apartment-early-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387073\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth police shoot knife-wielding man outside apartment early Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/screenshot-2026-07-26-095432.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; Fort Worth police shot and killed a knife-wielding man outside a West Fort Worth apartment early Sunday morning, marking the city\u2019s second officer-involved shooting of the weekend, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>   Officer-involved shooting <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers responded shortly after 6 a.m. to a report of a domestic disturbance near the intersection of Interstate 30 and Interstate 820. Police say the suspect kicked in the door to an apartment, armed with a knife.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Upon arrival, police found an armed suspect standing outside the apartment with a knife. Officers repeatedly ordered the man to drop the weapon, according to police officials, but he refused to comply and advanced toward the officers.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers opened fire, striking the suspect. He was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No officers were injured during the incident.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/072626-sh-ftwpd-oishooting-renee-cir_kdfw028b_186__00.09.03.32.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&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police are expected to hold a news conference to give more details on the situation.<\/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=\"\">The identity of the suspect has not been released.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The shooting comes less than 36 hours after Fort Worth police officers shot and killed another suspect following a vehicle pursuit in South Fort Worth on Saturday night. Both incidents remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is 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":"article FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; Fort Worth police shot and killed a knife-wielding man outside a West Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387074,"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-387073","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\/387073","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=387073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}