{"id":427811,"date":"2026-09-06T06:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T06:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427811\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T06:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T06:04:12","slug":"young-girl-finds-gun-dies-in-shooting-at-fort-worth-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427811\/","title":{"rendered":"Young girl finds gun, dies in shooting at Fort Worth apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"

A young child died after getting hold of an unsecured gun and accidentally shooting herself at a Fort Worth apartment complex Saturday night, police said.<\/p>\n

Officers were called about 7:45 p.m. to the Patriot Pointe Apartments in the 2100 block of Revolutionary Way, off Southeast Loop 820 in south Fort Worth, police spokesperson Officer Buddy Calzada said.<\/p>\n

The girl, who was between the ages of 3 and 5, was treated by medics on scene and taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

Based on the preliminary investigation, police believe the shooting occurred in a patio area and at least one adult was present at the time, Calzada said.<\/p>\n

Detectives are investigating who the gun belongs to and how the child got it.<\/p>\n

\"Fort Fort Worth police investigate a shooting at the Patriot Pointe Apartments on Saturday night, Sept. 5. A young child died from a gunshot wound after getting hold of an unsecured weapon. Lillie Davidson FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM <\/p>\n

The child will be identified by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Police encourage residents to secure their firearms and use gun locks<\/a>, Calzada said.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published September 5, 2026 at 10:32 PM.<\/p>\n

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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":"A young child died after getting hold of an unsecured gun and accidentally shooting herself at a Fort…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-427811","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\/427811","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=427811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}