{"id":405369,"date":"2026-08-13T10:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405369\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:14:25","slug":"arlington-man-kills-girlfriend-then-himself-in-denton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405369\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington man kills girlfriend, then himself in Denton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781465947_496_breakingphoto.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters.\" alt=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters.<\/p>\n<p>            Pexels<\/p>\n<p>An Arlington man shot and killed his ex-girlfriend on Sunday afternoon before turning the gun on himself, Denton police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Denton police responded to the 1900 block of North Bell Avenue around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday after receiving reports of a shooting, according to a post on the department\u2019s Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>Officers located a man and woman outside a residence, and both were pronounced deceased on scene, according to the post. Preliminary investigation found that the man fatally shot the woman before shooting himself.<\/p>\n<p>The Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office identified the woman as 24-year-old Ava Manley of Denton, and the man as 31-year-old Colin Farley of Arlington, according to the post. Detectives confirmed that Manley and Farley were previously in a dating relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing, and anyone with information is asked to contact Denton Police detective Pizana at 940-349-7922.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/288629615\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786616065_974_LillieDavidson-Profile Cropped.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Lillie Davidson\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/288629615\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lillie Davidson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Lillie Davidson is a breaking news reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She graduated from TCU in 2025 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism, is fluent in Spanish, and can complete a crossword in five minutes.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters. Pexels An Arlington man shot and killed his ex-girlfriend on Sunday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-405369","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\/405369","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=405369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}