{"id":393697,"date":"2026-07-31T17:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393697\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T17:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:41:08","slug":"man-accused-in-watauga-bat-attack-that-hospitalized-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/393697\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused in Watauga bat attack that hospitalized 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/anthony-curtis-mug.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">WATAUGA, Texas &#8211; Watauga police arrested a man who allegedly attacked another person with a bat.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The assault happened on Wednesday in the 6500 block of Ridglea Drive.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers who responded to the scene found a victim suffering from a serious head injury. That person was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A SWAT team was called to a nearby home to help arrest 20-year-old Anthony Curtis Jr. for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and outstanding warrants.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The officers found a bat believed to be used in the offense inside the home.<\/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=\"\">Police did not release any information about the motive for the attack or the relationship between Curtis and the victim.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The victim\u2019s medical condition is unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from the Watauga Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/watauga\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watauga<\/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 WATAUGA, Texas &#8211; Watauga police arrested a man who allegedly attacked another person with a bat. What&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1046,116,118,117,223,122,216,393,20907],"class_list":["post-393697","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-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us","tag-watauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393697","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=393697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}