{"id":427731,"date":"2026-09-06T04:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T04:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427731\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T04:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T04:04:08","slug":"fort-worth-child-dies-after-gaining-access-to-unsecured-firearm-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427731\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth child dies after gaining access to unsecured firearm \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A child is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot after gaining access to an unsecured gun in Fort Worth Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth police responded to the Patriot Pointe Apartments in the 2100 block of Revolutionary Way after receiving reports of a shooting around 7:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Responding officers found a child between the ages of 2 and 5 with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Officials rendered aid until the child was taken to the hospital, where the child later died.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigations revealed the child gained access to an unsecured firearm at the apartments. The shooting allegedly happened outside an apartment near a patio.<\/p>\n<p>Police said there was one adult there at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated as we learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A child is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot after gaining access to an unsecured gun in Fort Worth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-427731","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\/427731","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=427731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}