{"id":382050,"date":"2025-11-16T02:36:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T02:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/382050\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T02:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T02:36:32","slug":"fort-worth-police-investigating-2-separate-homicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/382050\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth police investigating 2 separate homicides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">In the span of about six hours, Fort Worth police responded to two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2025\/11\/13\/shooting-along-i-20-in-arlington-leaves-1-dead-another-injured-police-say\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2025\/11\/13\/shooting-along-i-20-in-arlington-leaves-1-dead-another-injured-police-say\/\">deadly shootings<\/a> in separate incidents on Friday and Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">On Friday at around 9 p.m., police responded to a shooting call on Lauretta Drive in southeast Fort Worth and found a man lying in front of a house with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/11\/12\/19-year-old-arrested-after-fatal-shooting-of-another-teen-in-south-dallas-on-monday\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/11\/12\/19-year-old-arrested-after-fatal-shooting-of-another-teen-in-south-dallas-on-monday\/\">multiple gunshot wounds<\/a> to the torso. Medical responders provided aid, but he was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The man was outside the house when a group of unknown subjects arrived and a verbal altercation ensued, police said. A suspect in the group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/11\/10\/fort-worth-man-arrested-in-fatal-grand-prairie-shooting-officials-say\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/11\/10\/fort-worth-man-arrested-in-fatal-grand-prairie-shooting-officials-say\/\">shot the victim<\/a> several times with a handgun and the group fled the scene. Police are interviewing witnesses and looking for video footage in the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">In a separate incident shortly before 2 a.m. on Saturday, police responded to a shooting call at an apartment complex on Augusta Lane in far north <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/food\/restaurant-news\/2025\/11\/12\/11-restaurants-and-bars-landman-actors-love-in-fort-worth\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/food\/restaurant-news\/2025\/11\/12\/11-restaurants-and-bars-landman-actors-love-in-fort-worth\/\">Fort Worth<\/a>. Officers found a man wearing a surgical mask and rubber gloves lying in a parking lot with multiple gunshot wounds to the torso. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. <\/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>Related<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:190 \/ 127\" class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-related-story-module__2UraD flex-none object-cover dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain dmnc_images-modern-image-module__P3kZ4 w-full\" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6L7KB7XOI5FYFI324I6L47OF7M.JPG\" alt=\"A portrait of Carlos Mendez was taken on November 28, 2007, in Fort Worth, Texas.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police were told three to four unknown men were seen in the complex also wearing surgical masks and gloves. Police believe the men may have been breaking into cars when the victim was shot by an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/11\/15\/teen-suspect-used-hammer-to-attack-woman-jogging-in-plano-park-police-say\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/11\/15\/teen-suspect-used-hammer-to-attack-woman-jogging-in-plano-park-police-say\/\">unknown suspect<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The victim\u2019s brother spoke to police at the scene, according to a statement. Police said it appeared the brother had been at the complex at the time of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/11\/08\/3-dead-suspect-found-with-self-inflicted-wound-after-san-antonio-shooting-friday\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/11\/08\/3-dead-suspect-found-with-self-inflicted-wound-after-san-antonio-shooting-friday\/\">the shooting<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The investigations are ongoing, police said, and no arrests have been made as police are still searching for suspects. Police have not released the name of either victim. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the span of about six hours, Fort Worth police responded to two deadly shootings in separate incidents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,4219,7371,7372,42423,4221,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-382050","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-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-guns","13":"tag-homicide","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115557052741196922","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382050","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=382050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}