{"id":436869,"date":"2026-09-15T18:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436869\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T18:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:34:30","slug":"fort-worth-marks-27-years-since-wedgwood-baptist-church-shooting-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436869\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth marks 27 years since Wedgwood Baptist Church shooting \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Fort Worth is remembering the seven lives lost and seven others injured 27 years ago when a gunman walked into a youth gathering at Wedgwood Baptist Church and opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>Al Meredith, pastor emeritus at the church, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/counting-miracles-fort-worth-church-marks-25-years-after-mass-shooting\/3645957\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">told NBC 5 on the 25th anniversary of the shooting<\/a> that the gunman got out of his car with a cigarette and shot the first person to welcome him to the church, custodian Jeff Laster. <\/p>\n<p>The gunman would go on to shoot 13 others before killing himself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/InsideFWPD\/posts\/remembering-september-15-1999-twenty-seven-years-ago-today-the-city-of-fort-wort\/1523306326506521\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth shared a post on social media<\/a> recognizing the anniversary and &#8220;the strength and resilience of the Fort Worth community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, we remember those whose lives were forever changed that night. We remember the victims, their families, the survivors, the first responders, and the entire Wedgwood Baptist Church community,&#8221; the city said. &#8220;While the years have passed, we know that time does not erase the memories or the impact of such a tragedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Meredith urged those remembering the shooting to &#8220;remember the miracles.&#8221; That&#8217;s why, to this day, the church keeps a bullet hole exposed in one of its doors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve still got the bullet hole there just to remind us of what God spared us,&#8221; Meredith said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Fort Worth is remembering the seven lives lost and seven others injured 27 years ago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,5603],"class_list":["post-436869","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-gun-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436869","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=436869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}