{"id":475342,"date":"2026-10-24T10:24:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T10:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475342\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T10:24:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T10:24:34","slug":"fort-worth-police-officer-dies-after-medical-emergency-while-on-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475342\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth police officer dies after medical emergency while on duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/police.fortworthtexas.gov\/home\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth police<\/a> officer died Wednesday after suffering a medical emergency while on duty the day before, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Brian Gentry had been with the department since 2004 and was assigned to its fugitive unit as a task force officer with the U.S. Marshals Service.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Gentry, 53, experienced a medical emergency Tuesday while working and went to a local hospital emergency room. He was admitted to the intensive care unit and died hours later Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The department didn&#8217;t release additional details about the medical emergency or Gentry\u2019s cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>\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>Garcia said the department would support Gentry\u2019s family and fellow officers. Police didn&#8217;t announce funeral arrangements as of Wednesday afternoon.\u00a0Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker ordered city flags to\u00a0be flown at half-staff following the officer&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth police officer died Wednesday after suffering a medical emergency while on duty the day before,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,161020,89512,88643,89217],"class_list":["post-475342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-tp-fort-worth-police","tag-tp-texas","tag-tp-fort-worth","tag-tp-tarrant-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475342","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=475342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}