{"id":79262,"date":"2025-12-07T13:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/79262\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T13:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:05:15","slug":"man-injured-in-shooting-at-hulen-mall-in-fort-worth-police-search-for-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/79262\/","title":{"rendered":"Man injured in shooting at Hulen Mall in Fort Worth; police search for suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man was injured in what police believe was a targeted <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fortworthpd\/status\/1997420507218558999?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:shooting outside Hulen Mall;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">shooting outside Hulen Mall<\/a> in Fort Worth on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shooting was reported about 2 p.m. in a grassy area near the parking lot close to the Red Robin restaurant and Macy\u2019s on the east side of the mall, at 4700 S. Hulen St. Multiple 911 callers reported hearing at least one gunshot outside while the mall was crowded with Christmas shoppers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim was shot in the leg and is expected to survive. Gun Violence Unit detectives believe that the victim and shooter know each other, a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The preliminary investigation found that the victim was walking outside the mall when the suspect pulled out a gun and shot him, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No arrests have been made in the case. Police are searching for the suspected gunman and investigating the motive for the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators are interviewing witnesses and reviewing surveillance video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\ud83d\udea8 More breaking news:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An off-duty officer from another agency and off-duty medical personnel helped the victim until Fort Worth Fire Department medics arrived to take him to a hospital, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No one answered the phone at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulenmall.com\/en\/visit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Hulen Mall;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Hulen Mall<\/a> office Saturday afternoon, but the mall remained open and shoppers could be seen coming and going from the stores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Macy\u2019s employee Fernanda Barbosa said she was in the men\u2019s department when the shooting occurred. It was close enough to the store for her to hear the shots. The store wasn\u2019t evacuated, but security personnel locked the door closest to where the incident occurred and wouldn\u2019t let anyone leave by that way for about 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt was isolated,\u201d Barbosa said of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A man was shot in the leg in what police believe was a targeted shooting outside Hulen Mall in Fort Worth on Dec. 6, 2025. No suspect was in custody Saturday afternoon.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"571\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/56be286e71c840bdffbf55163467cea9.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A man was shot in the leg in what police believe was a targeted shooting outside Hulen Mall in Fort Worth on Dec. 6, 2025. No suspect was in custody Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mamta Rizal was working at Sunglass Hut in another part of Macy\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI didn\u2019t even know what happened,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rizal learned about the shooting from others who\u2019d been closer to the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The parking lot was full of cars at 4:45 p.m. Macy\u2019s was crowded with holiday shoppers in spite of the police cars in front of the east entrance and the crime-scene tape around the area next to the door.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story. For the latest updates, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:sign up for breaking news alerts.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">sign up for breaking news alerts.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was injured in what police believe was a targeted shooting outside Hulen Mall in Fort Worth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,38831,31551,38830],"class_list":{"0":"post-79262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news","11":"tag-hulen-mall","12":"tag-macys","13":"tag-police-spokesperson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79262","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=79262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}