{"id":388972,"date":"2026-07-28T11:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388972\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:18:28","slug":"fort-worth-police-fatally-shoot-wanted-felony-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388972\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth police fatally shoot wanted felony suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wanted felony suspect was fatally shot by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fort-worth\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a> police following a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brief\u00a0pursuit <\/a>Saturday evening, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The deadly shooting happened as officers investigated a case involving a suspect with an outstanding felony warrant for tampering with an ankle monitor, Fort Worth police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found the suspect around 8 p.m. in a vehicle near Interstate 35 and Risinger Road. Officers turned on their emergency lights and attempted to pull the suspect over. Police said officers followed the suspect in a brief pursuit until they drove into a parking lot near the 100 block of Palette Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Officers stopped and approached the suspect&#8217;s vehicle while giving them verbal commands, police said. The suspect then pulled out &#8220;what officers believed to be a gun,&#8221; and officers shot the suspect, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified suspect was provided medical aid but died at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found a gun inside the suspect&#8217;s vehicle during a safety sweep, police said. No other passengers were inside the vehicle, and no one else was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not provided information on how many officers were involved in the shooting and the reason the suspect was wearing an ankle monitor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wanted felony suspect was fatally shot by\u00a0Fort Worth police following a\u00a0brief\u00a0pursuit Saturday evening, police said. The deadly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-388972","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\/388972","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=388972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}