{"id":473118,"date":"2026-10-22T06:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473118\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T06:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:56:18","slug":"fort-worth-police-officer-dies-after-falling-ill-on-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473118\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth police officer dies after falling ill on duty"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Fort Worth Police Department officer died on Wednesday after he experienced a medical emergency while on duty a day earlier, the department said.<\/p>\n

Brian Gentry, 53, went to a hospital emergency room, was admitted to the ICU and died hours later, the department said.<\/p>\n

Gentry had been employed by the city as an officer since 2004. He was assigned to the fugitive unit as a U.S. Marshals Service task force officer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe loss of a member of our department<\/a> is deeply personal,\u201d police Chief Eddie Garcia wrote. \u201cBrian was one of our own, and his passing will be felt by the many people who had the privilege of working alongside him and calling him a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia wrote that the department would \u201ccome together to support one another and, most importantly, to support his family as they navigate this unimaginable loss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Funeral arrangements were not immediately released.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published October 21, 2026 at 3:54 PM.<\/p>\n

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Emerson Clarridge covers crime and other breaking news for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He works days and reports on law enforcement affairs in Tarrant County. He previously was a reporter at the Omaha World-Herald and the Observer-Dispatch in Utica, New York.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth Police Department officer died on Wednesday after he experienced a medical emergency while on duty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-473118","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\/473118","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=473118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}