{"id":413269,"date":"2026-08-21T22:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413269\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:08:08","slug":"fort-worth-police-search-for-suspect-in-two-early-morning-machete-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413269\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth police search for suspect in two early\u2011morning machete attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/fort-worth\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Worth<\/a> are searching for a man who allegedly attacked two people with a machete in separate early\u2011morning incidents Friday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to a report of a person with a weapon at about 6:15 a.m. at Capps Park, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/fort-worth-police-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Worth Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, described as a dark\u2011skinned male, possibly Hispanic, left both victims with minor injuries before fleeing the area, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He may be suffering from a mental health crisis as these attacks appear to be unprovoked,&#8221; the department said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The first victim suffered a small hand laceration and refused hospital treatment. The second victim, injured about 45 minutes earlier, also had a minor hand wound and declined medical care, police said.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas said it will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Fort Worth are searching for a man who allegedly attacked two people with a machete in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,2238,430,27],"class_list":["post-413269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police-department","tag-north-texas","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413269","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=413269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}