{"id":511721,"date":"2026-01-12T21:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/511721\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T21:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:44:14","slug":"man-dead-after-being-shot-while-allegedly-trespassing-in-fort-worth-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/511721\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead after being shot while allegedly trespassing in Fort Worth, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fort-worth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fort-worth\/\">Fort Worth<\/a> property owner shot and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/homicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/homicide\/\">killed a man<\/a> who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/crime\/O\/page\/3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/crime\/O\/page\/3\/\">allegedly trespassing<\/a> on their property and refused orders to leave the area, police said Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officers first responded to an investigation call in the 3400 block of Avenue L around 6 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police located an unidentified man lying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the torso. Officials provided medical assistance, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Investigators said the shooter had seen the man on their property trying to enter through a locked garage, according to 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\">The property owner confronted the man and told him to leave the site. The shooter fired multiple shots toward the man after he \u201caggressively\u201d approached, according to police. It remains unknown how many times he was struck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The man then fled from the scene on foot but collapsed at the intersection of Avenue L and Bishop Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The property owner called 911 to report the shooting, police said, and remained on scene to cooperate with the investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">No arrests have been made as of Monday afternoon. Police did not immediately say if they planned to pursue criminal charges in connection with the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">No further information about the incident was immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Anyone with information is asked to contact Fort Worth police at 817-392-4330. Tips may also be submitted anonymously through Tarrant County Crime Stoppers by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/469tips.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">469tips.com<\/a> or calling 817-469-8477.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__DAHnF list-disc\"><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2026\/01\/12\/police-identify-man-who-was-killed-in-west-dallas-dog-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police identify man who was killed in West Dallas dog attack<\/a><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/education\/2026\/01\/12\/frisco-isd-schools-go-into-secure-status-following-emailed-threats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Threats against Frisco ISD schools aren\u2019t credible, police determine<\/a><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth property owner shot and killed a man who was allegedly trespassing on their property and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":511722,"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-511721","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\/115884318151719614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511721","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=511721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}