{"id":476758,"date":"2026-10-26T02:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T02:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/476758\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T02:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T02:56:09","slug":"candlelight-vigil-honors-fort-worth-officer-brian-gentry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/476758\/","title":{"rendered":"Candlelight vigil honors Fort Worth officer Brian Gentry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A candlelight vigil <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/fort-worth\/article317720860.html\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">honoring Fort Worth<\/a> police officer Brian Gentry has been organized for Monday, Oct. 26.<\/p>\n<p>Gentry, 53, died on Wednesday, Oct. 21, after experiencing a medical emergency while on duty a day earlier, according to the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The public is invited to the candlelight vigil to honor Gentry\u2019s life and service at 6 p.m. at the Bob Bolen Public Safety Complex, 505 W. Felix St., the police department said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Gentry was assigned to the fugitive unit as a U.S. Marshals Service task force officer and had been employed by the city as an officer since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/294400689\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792983369_682_ST_Shambhavi Rimal.jpeg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Shambhavi Rimal\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/294400689\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shambhavi Rimal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Shambhavi covers crime, law enforcement and other breaking news in Fort Worth and Tarrant County. She graduated from the University of North Texas and previously covered a variety of general assignment topics in West Texas. She grew up in Nepal.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A candlelight vigil honoring Fort Worth police officer Brian Gentry has been organized for Monday, Oct. 26. Gentry,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-476758","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\/476758","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=476758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}