According to an arrest affidavit, surveillance footage shows the suspect give a handgun to one of the two suspected shooters.
FORT WORTH, Texas — A third suspect has been charged with murder in connection with the West 7th shooting last October that left one person dead and five others injured.
Fort Worth police say the suspect, 20-year-old Lamar Luster, was seen on surveillance footage giving a handgun to one of the two suspected shooters: 22-year-old Jason Nash and 21-year-old Arkell Ross. A witness was able to identify Luster based on the footage.
Officers responded to a shooting call around 1:43 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, to Social LIV in the 3000 block of Bledsoe Street, Fort Worth police said in a press release.
When police arrived, they found a dead victim inside a business with gunshot wounds to his upper torso, the release states. The victim was later identified as 31-year-old Patrique Allen, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner.
Five other shooting victims were taken by ambulance or self-transported to nearby hospitals, Fort Worth police said. The surviving victims are in stable condition, the release states.
One witness spoke with detectives and said she knew the victim who was killed, Patrique Allen, 31, well.
The witness told police she was standing near Allen when she saw a man known as “Lil Steppa” shoot him, the report detailed. She pulled up photos for police of the man known as “Lil Steppa” and another man she thought she saw, known as “BaBa.”
Police say both of the individuals had been documented as 22-year-old Jason Nash and 21-year-old Arkell Ross. Both Nash and Ross were arrested and charged with murder in connection with the incident.
A second witness who spoke with police confirmed they also saw the same person the first witness spoke of, Nash.
According to the affidavit, security footage shows the two suspects shooting the victim inside the bar. Their faces could be clearly seen in the footage and was matched to prior photos of the two.