{"id":279976,"date":"2025-10-05T17:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279976\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T17:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T17:39:10","slug":"18-year-old-identified-as-woman-fatally-shot-in-fort-worth-while-exchanging-car-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279976\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old identified as woman fatally shot in Fort Worth while exchanging car insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A woman has been arrested and faces a murder charge following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/10\/04\/fort-worth-police-investigate-3-separate-homicides-that-occurred-friday-officials-say\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/10\/04\/fort-worth-police-investigate-3-separate-homicides-that-occurred-friday-officials-say\/\">fatal shooting of an 18-year-old<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Jenny Rosales died from a gunshot wound to the chest at about 4:40 p.m. Friday in the parking lot of a seafood restaurant in the 5100 block of Wichita Street, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Laterica Johnson, 47, has been arrested in connection to the shooting, according to Fort Worth police jail records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">After responding to the restaurant, officers learned from witnesses the victim and her suspected shooter had been involved in a minor vehicle accident, according to a news release from police.<\/p>\n<p>Crime in The News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Read the crime and public safety news your neighbors are talking about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">They were attempting to exchange car insurance when witnesses saw one of the women pull out a handgun, point it at several people near the restaurant and attempted to leave without providing her insurance information, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The woman then shot the 18-year-old and killed her, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The woman, later identified as Johnson following her arrest, left the scene, but called police and waited for them to arrive at her location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The gun used in the shooting was found in the suspects vehicle, police said.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-with-images-list-with-images-module__P4zn3 inline-block pr-8 shrink-0 w-auto flex flex-col\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/10\/05\/shooting-at-tarrant-county-bar-leaves-1-dead-5-injured-police-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:190 \/ 127\" class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-with-images-list-with-images-module__6H-hI dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain\" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/UK7KYDFMRBP2SZ2QBVG7QNTFXA.png\" alt=\"Fort Worth Police squad car\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/10\/05\/shooting-at-tarrant-county-bar-leaves-1-dead-5-injured-police-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shooting at Tarrant County bar leaves 1 dead, 5 injured, police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The shooting may have been gang related, according to police. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-with-images-list-with-images-module__P4zn3 inline-block pr-8 shrink-0 w-auto flex flex-col\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/texas\/2025\/10\/04\/angleton-houston-texas-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:190 \/ 127\" class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-with-images-list-with-images-module__6H-hI dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain\" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/OYAVIG4LIVBNHOUUDRAVEQMUJU.jpg\" alt=\"Law enforcement officials investigate a vehicle near the scene of a deadly shooting shooting...\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/texas\/2025\/10\/04\/angleton-houston-texas-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woman arrested after shooting near Houston suburb leaves 2 kids dead, 2 hurt <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators were working to verify how the woman and children are related.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-with-images-list-with-images-module__P4zn3 inline-block pr-8 shrink-0 w-auto flex flex-col\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2025\/10\/04\/roberson-thanks-supporters-in-message-from-death-row-to-rally-on-steps-of-texas-capitol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:190 \/ 127\" class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-with-images-list-with-images-module__6H-hI dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain\" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WZDBIYEMPBHVZL4CDNSQRLE3R4.jpg\" alt=\"AUSTIN -- Supporters for Robert Roberson rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol on...\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2025\/10\/04\/roberson-thanks-supporters-in-message-from-death-row-to-rally-on-steps-of-texas-capitol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roberson thanks supporters in message from death row to rally on steps of Texas Capitol<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roberson, 58, is set to die by lethal injection in Huntsville in less than two weeks, marking the state\u2019s third attempt to execute him for the death of his daughter, 2-year-old Nikki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been arrested and faces a murder charge following the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,4219,7712,7371,7372,4221,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-279976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-dallas-fortworth","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-homicide","14":"tag-tarrant-county","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115322785983342791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}