{"id":473540,"date":"2026-10-22T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473540\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:34:14","slug":"fort-worth-police-officer-brian-gentry-dies-after-on-duty-medical-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473540\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Police Officer Brian Gentry Dies After On-Duty Medical Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"krtText\">The department didn&#8217;t release additional details about the medical emergency or Gentry\u2019s cause of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"krtText\">\u201cThe loss of a member of our department is deeply personal,\u201d Chief Eddie Garcia said in a statement. \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<p class=\"krtText\">Garcia said the department would support Gentry\u2019s family and fellow officers. Police didn&#8217;t announce funeral arrangements as of Wednesday afternoon. Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker ordered city flags to be flown at half-staff following the officer&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"krtText\">______________<\/p>\n<p class=\"krtText\">\u00a9 2026 The Dallas Morning News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"krtText\">Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.dallasnews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"krtText\">Distributed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribunecontentagency.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tribune Content Agency, LLC.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The department didn&#8217;t release additional details about the medical emergency or Gentry\u2019s cause of death. \u201cThe loss of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-473540","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\/473540","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=473540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}