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FORT WORTH, Texas<\/strong> – The man who killed an 18-year-old celebrating his birthday near the Fort Worth Stockyards last year has been sentenced to 32 years in prison.<\/p>\n Fort Worth Murder Conviction <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n According to the Tarrant County District Attorney\u2019s Office, 20-year-old Kevin Aguilar pleaded guilty to the 2024 murder.<\/p>\n Aguilar was then sentenced to 32 years in prison.<\/p>\n Fort Worth Stockyards Shooting The backstory:<\/p>\n The deadly shooting happened around 3 a.m. on Oct. 6, 2024, in a parking lot near the intersection of NW 24th Street and Ellis Avenue.<\/p>\n Fort Worth police said a man fired an AR-style rifle into a crowd of people, hitting four of them.<\/p>\n Joseph Padilla died in the shooting. He was a senior at Weatherford High School and was out celebrating his 18th birthday at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n The three other victims survived their injuries.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n The DA\u2019s office did not release any information about the motive for the shooting. It\u2019s not clear if Aguilar knew any of his victims or if anyone was targeted.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> The information in this story was provided by the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office, the Fort Worth Police Department, and Weatherford ISD.<\/p>\n Fort Worth<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article FORT WORTH, Texas – The man who killed an 18-year-old celebrating his birthday near the Fort Worth…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,6082,7371,7372,50,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-73999","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-publicsafety","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tarrant-county","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\/114877040176033556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73999","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=73999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100624-sh-ftw-pd-shooting-nw-24th-st_kdfw8b39_186__00.00.44.14.jpg\")
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