Around 8:45 p.m. on Friday, the Fort Worth Police Department said it received a 911 call from the 1,400 block of East Chase Parkway that a gas station store clerk had been shot.
When officers arrived, FWPD said the employee had died from his injuries. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victim as Chandrashekar Pole, 28.
Police said the suspect, 23-year-old Richard Florez, left the gas station to a location about a mile south and became involved in an altercation with another vehicle and shot into it several times.
Officer Brad Perez, a spokesperson for the Fort Worth Police Department, said no body was harmed in that shooting.
The suspect is then accused of traveling to the 8500 block of Meadowbrook Drive and ramming through the metal access gate of someone’s property.
Police said the suspect tried to enter the property. Perez said the people living there did not know the suspect and called 911.
“They [officers] also recovered a gun inside the vehicle at that scene,” said Perez regarding the police investigation. “That suspect is currently in the hospital, but he has been booked for the homicide.”
The Consulate General of India, Houston, offered condolences to the Pole family via a post on its Facebook page. It said Pole was an Indian student from Hyderabad who was currently in school in North Texas.
It was a violent and deadly weekend across the metroplex in both Dallas and Fort Worth. Perez said newly sworn-in Chief Eddie Garcia was notified about the three homicides within such a short period of time and initiated several specialized units to be out on patrol over the weekend.
Perez said Garcia ordered VICE, the Direct Response Unit (DRU), and members of SWAT to be visible in high crime areas to deter any further major crimes.