{"id":486425,"date":"2026-01-02T05:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/486425\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T05:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:50:11","slug":"woman-killed-by-security-guard-after-confrontation-in-fort-worth-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/486425\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed by security guard after confrontation in Fort Worth, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A woman was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/\">fatally shot in Fort Worth on New Year\u2019s Day<\/a> after a confrontation with a security guard outside a business, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Fort Worth police officers responded to a reported shooting Thursday around 5:40 p.m. in the 2600 block of South Riverside Drive. When they arrived, they found the woman with a fatal gunshot wound, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The security guard, who hasn\u2019t yet been identified, was detained at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police haven\u2019t said if the guard was arrested or released. Investigators also did not say if they planned to pursue criminal charges in the case.<\/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\">According to police, the confrontation began when the security guard told the woman to leave the property. The two argued, and the guard used pepper spray on the woman. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police said the woman then grabbed what they describe as a \u201cstabbing weapon\u201d and was shot while heading toward the guard while holding the item.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office will confirm the woman\u2019s identity and determine the official cause of death, according to the police department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The incident remains under investigation, and police haven\u2019t released any more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was fatally shot in Fort Worth on New Year\u2019s Day after a confrontation with a security&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,4219,7371,7372,4221,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-486425","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-homicide","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115823943617975231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486425","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=486425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486425\/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=486425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}