{"id":387164,"date":"2026-07-26T18:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387164\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T18:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:57:14","slug":"remaining-suspect-in-fort-smith-teen-homicide-arrested-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387164\/","title":{"rendered":"Remaining Suspect in Fort Smith Teen Homicide Arrested in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remaining Suspect in Fort Smith Teen Homicide Arrested in Houston<\/p>\n

\"Carlee<\/a>FORT SMITH, Ark. \u2014<\/p>\n

The suspect wanted in connection with the July 7 killing of a 16-year-old boy in Fort Smith<\/a> has been arrested.<\/p>\n

Fort Smith police announced Sunday that Jasmine Ashanti Johnston, 20, was located in Houston and taken into custody without incident by the United States Marshals Service.<\/p>\n

Johnston was the final at-large suspect in the homicide that occurred July 7 in the 5300 block of Elm Street.<\/p>\n

Following the shooting, investigators obtained an arrest warrant charging Johnston with first-degree murder and aggravated robbery.<\/p>\n

Another suspect in the case, Donny Warned, was previously arrested in LeFlore County, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

Police said officers initially responded around 6 p.m. on July 7 to the southbound on-ramp of Interstate 540 and Kelley Highway, where they found the 16-year-old victim suffering from injuries. The teen was taken to a hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n

In announcing Johnston’s arrest, Fort Smith police thanked the U.S. Marshals Service for locating and apprehending him and for its cooperation throughout the investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remaining Suspect in Fort Smith Teen Homicide Arrested in Houston FORT SMITH, Ark. \u2014 The suspect wanted in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[136448,2461,56,58,57,95],"class_list":["post-387164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-fort-smith","tag-homicide","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387164","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=387164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}