{"id":464840,"date":"2026-10-13T15:34:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/464840\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T15:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:34:20","slug":"man-dies-after-stabbing-himself-during-fort-worth-police-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/464840\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after stabbing himself during Fort Worth police encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man died after stabbing himself with a knife during an encounter with Fort Worth police, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded Oct. 12 to a reported disturbance in the 2500 block of Northeast 36th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the man arrived in a vehicle with two flat tires, left it at a nearby business and walked around the property with his dog.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, the man yelled obscenities and displayed a knife, police said. Officers gave verbal commands and used a Taser before the man stabbed himself.<\/p>\n<p>Officers tried to save him, but he died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office will identify the man at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man died after stabbing himself with a knife during an encounter with Fort Worth police, officials said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[294,116,118,117,3737,11798],"class_list":["post-464840","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-fort-worth-police","tag-stabbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464840","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=464840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}