{"id":81299,"date":"2025-12-09T04:25:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/81299\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T04:25:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:25:29","slug":"fort-worth-police-charge-suspects-gunman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/81299\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth police charge suspects gunman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man was shot in the leg outside Hulen Mall on Saturday afternoon; he is expected to recover from the injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators believe the victim and gunman knew each other, suggesting the shooting was a targeted incident rather than a random attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspected gunman has been identified as Kyonte Mitchell, according to Fort Worth police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; Fort Worth police are searching for a gunman after a man was shot in the leg outside a busy Fort Worth mall on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Hulen Mall Shooting<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shooting happened around 2 p.m. outside the Hulen Mall, specifically in the area between the Macy\u2019s department store and the Red Robin restaurant, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An off-duty police officer was already helping the victim when Fort Worth Fire Department and EMS personnel arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/8c5539c4f8dd60c79d10994d450b315e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to initial findings, the victim was walking toward the mall entrance when a suspect pulled a gun and shot him. The victim was shot in the leg and was taken to a local hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Detectives believe the victim and the suspect knew each other. The suspect was later identified as 21-year-old Kyonte Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Kyonte Mitchell | Courtesy: FWPD&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ca1f353c9220788ff9744f753bb1a515.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kyonte Mitchell | Courtesy: FWPD<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mitchell was charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are asking anyone with information to contact the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information in this article is from the Fort Worth Police Deparrtment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A man was shot in the leg outside Hulen Mall on Saturday afternoon; he is expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,124,118,117,3737,38831,39438,27],"class_list":["post-81299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-fire-department","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police","tag-hulen-mall","tag-kyonte-mitchell","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81299","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=81299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}