The Brief<\/p>\n
Fort Worth police shot and killed a male suspect Saturday night following a brief vehicular pursuit in South Fort Worth.<\/p>\n
The chase began when officers tried to pull over a suspect wanted on an outstanding felony warrant, ending when the driver stopped in a parking lot on Palette Drive.<\/p>\n
Police fired after the suspect allegedly produced a firearm; a gun was recovered inside the vehicle, and no officers or bystanders were injured.<\/p>\n
FORT WORTH, Texas – Fort Worth police are investigating an officer-involved shooting that left a man dead Saturday night after a brief vehicular chase in South Fort Worth ended in gunfire, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Officer-involved shooting<\/p>\n
Early Sunday morning, officials with the Fort Worth Police Department released more information about the shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
Members of the department’s Directed Response Unit were conducting an investigation into a known suspect wanted on an outstanding felony warrant for tampering with an electronic monitoring device around 6:45 p.m., according to a news release from the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n
Shortly after 8 p.m., officers spotted the suspect driving a vehicle near Interstate 35 and Risinger Road. When officers activated their emergency lights to initiate a traffic stop, the suspect fled, prompting a short pursuit.<\/p>\n
The suspect drove into a parking lot near the 100 block of Palette Drive and came to a stop. As officers approached the vehicle and issued verbal commands, the suspect produced what officers believed to be a firearm. Officers opened fire, striking the suspect.<\/p>\n
Officers on the scene, along with members of the Fort Worth Fire Department, rendered medical care, but the suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
During a safety sweep of the vehicle, police located a gun inside, according to the release. No passengers were in the vehicle, and no officers or bystanders were injured in the incident.<\/p>\n
The department’s Major Case Unit is leading the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the pursuit and shooting.<\/p>\n
What we don’t know<\/p>\n
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office will release the identity of the deceased and determine the official cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information in this article is from the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Fort Worth police shot and killed a male suspect Saturday night following a brief vehicular pursuit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,124,118,117,3737,5774],"class_list":["post-387398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-fire-department","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387398","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=387398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}