{"id":44041,"date":"2025-11-11T00:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/44041\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T00:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:51:08","slug":"fort-worth-man-arrested-in-fatal-grand-prairie-shooting-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/44041\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth man arrested in fatal Grand Prairie shooting, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/grand-prairie\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/grand-prairie\/\">Grand Prairie<\/a> police have arrested a man in connection with a shooting on Sunday that left one person dead, according to a news release from the department. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Courtlon Allen, 25, of Fort Worth, was arrested following the incident. It was not clear if Allen has an attorney. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">At about 10 p.m., officers responded to a shooting call at a residence in the 1300 block of Daja Lane, where they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound, the release said. He was pronounced dead at the scene by medics. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police said the suspect fled from the scene but was caught nearby. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Evidence recovered at the scene and witness statements point toward a possible altercation that escalated between the two involved, who apparently knew each other, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Crime in The News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Read the crime and public safety news your neighbors are talking about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police did not immediately release the identity of the victim. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grand Prairie police have arrested a man in connection with a shooting on Sunday that left one person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[294,116,118,117,1279,2461],"class_list":["post-44041","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-grand-prairie","tag-homicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44041","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=44041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}