{"id":440248,"date":"2026-09-18T18:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440248\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T18:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:50:24","slug":"fort-worth-man-accused-of-killing-stepfather-after-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440248\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth man accused of killing stepfather after fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 19-year-old man is accused of fatally shooting his stepfather after witnessing a physical fight between the man and his mother, Fort Worth police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded Sept. 15 to a shooting on Sloop Street and found 40-year-old Kendrick Malone wounded. Malone died at a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>According to an arrest affidavit, Malone was arguing with his wife when her son, Eric Titus III, allegedly shot him from the bedroom doorway. A second witness also reported seeing Titus shoot Malone.<\/p>\n<p>Titus left the scene but later surrendered to police, according to his attorney. He was arrested and charged with murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old man is accused of fatally shooting his stepfather after witnessing a physical fight between the man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[294,116,118,117,636],"class_list":["post-440248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-crime","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440248","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=440248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}