Fort Worth Weekend Shootings Leave One Dead and Multiple Wounded

Overview

• At about 2:30 a.m. on July 6, suspects retrieved firearms from a vehicle outside a Northside nightclub and fatally shot a man who later died at a hospital
• A woman was struck in the torso by gunfire near OK Food Mart in Historic Southside on July 5 as roughly 50 to 100 people set off fireworks
• Officers responded around 1:30 a.m. on July 6 to a home on Pedernales Trail where a man had been shot in the face and was transported to a hospital
• No arrests have been made in any of the incidents, leading homicide detectives to oversee the nightclub case and the gun violence unit to probe the convenience store shooting
• These weekend shootings highlight a broader rise in Fort Worth gun violence despite stepped-up police patrols in entertainment districts and neighborhoods