{"id":422417,"date":"2026-09-01T02:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/422417\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T02:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:32:09","slug":"fort-worth-murder-suspect-smoked-crack-cocaine-before-stabbing-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/422417\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth murder suspect smoked crack cocaine before stabbing cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A Fort Worth man is facing a murder charge after he told police he smoked crack cocaine and stabbed his cousin, an arrest document states.<\/p>\n<p> Fort Worth fatal stabbing   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jaykel-vanegas-martinez-mug.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">On Aug. 30 at around 2:45 a.m., Fort Worth Police received a call telling them that 21-year-old Jaykel Vanegas-Martinez confessed to stabbing his cousin.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police found a body at Vanegas-Martinez&#8217;s apartment who had stab wounds on her neck and her biceps. Investigators found a blood-stained knife near the body.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Vanegas-Martinez was found at a shopping center on E. Lancaster Avenue with blood on his shirt and injuries to his arm.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">An arrest affidavit states the suspect told officials he smoked crack cocaine before stabbing his cousin, who he said pleaded for him to stop before he continued the stabbing.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Vanegas-Martinez has been charged with murder and has been booked into the Tarrant County Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story comes from the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/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":"FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A Fort Worth man is facing a murder charge after he told police he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1046,116,118,117,223,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-422417","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422417","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=422417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}