{"id":405171,"date":"2026-08-13T04:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405171\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T04:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:28:10","slug":"fort-worth-man-charged-in-fatal-shooting-of-neighbor-after-months-of-community-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405171\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth man charged in fatal shooting of neighbor after months of community concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Fort Worth<\/a> man is behind bars, accused of shooting and killing his neighbor. Now, neighbors say they had raised concerns about the suspect months before the deadly shooting.<\/p>\n

Aryn Harde, who lives in the Talons Crest Circle neighborhood in northwest Fort Worth, says her family began experiencing what she described as harassment from her neighbor, 24-year-old Jose Escamilla, last October.<\/p>\n

Harde said her son was outside when he ran back inside crying, telling her there was a man on the fence yelling at him.<\/p>\n

“This neighbor has started harassing us,” Harde said. “It started in October.”<\/p>\n

Harde and other neighbors also documented what they say was Escamilla standing over fences and looking into their yards.<\/p>\n

“We call him the creepy man,” Harde said. “He’s scary. He’s very scary.”<\/p>\n

Neighbors felt “uncomfortable,” “violated” before deadly shooting<\/p>\n

Neighbors say they also began noticing surveillance cameras positioned around Escamilla’s property, including cameras inside pots and in windows that they believed were pointed toward their homes.<\/p>\n

Harde said the situation escalated in June when she believes her home security cameras captured Escamilla entering her backyard and shooting a nail gun at one of her cameras.<\/p>\n

“Angry, uncomfortable? Violated?” Harde said. “It’s awful. It’s so awful. And I feel like I can’t keep my son safe.”<\/p>\n

Then, on Aug. 9, Harde said she learned that her next-door neighbor, 44-year-old Rudy Jaramillo, had been shot and killed.<\/p>\n

Harde said another neighbor came to her door after the shooting, and she heard sirens throughout the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

“It was just so terrifying,” she said.<\/p>\n

Fort Worth man rode bicycle to kill neighbor, police say<\/p>\n

According to Fort Worth police arrest documents, Jaramillo’s family captured the shooting on surveillance video.<\/p>\n

Investigators said the video shows a suspect wearing dark clothing riding a bicycle up to a vehicle before firing several shots. Police linked the shooting to Escamilla, who, investigators say, was wearing the same clothes and had a similar bike to what was caught on video.<\/p>\n

Police said Escamilla told investigators he had been involved in an ongoing dispute with his neighbors, including an argument over neighbors “moving his cameras.”<\/p>\n

Harde said learning about the shooting left her wondering whether her family could have been targeted.<\/p>\n

“It could have been any one of us,” she said. “It very likely could have been my husband. It could have been me just walking to the park with my kids.”<\/p>\n

Harde said she is now considering moving because she no longer feels safe living next door to a man accused of murder.<\/p>\n

“I don’t even know. It shouldn’t have gotten this far. It could have been prevented,” she said.<\/p>\n

Escamilla is being held in the Tarrant County Jail on a $250,000 bond.<\/p>\n

CBS News Texas has reached out to Escamilla’s attorney for comment and has not heard back. A crew also knocked on the family’s door seeking comment. The Jaramillo family did not wish to speak at this time.<\/p>\n

This story will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n

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