{"id":773058,"date":"2026-05-04T17:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/773058\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:36:17","slug":"fort-worth-police-to-release-video-of-cru-officer-ambush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/773058\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth police to release video of CRU officer ambush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wl1sur68id11gf3w.jpg\" alt=\"PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Fort Worth PD civilian officer released from hospital\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\"><strong>FORT WORTH, Texas<\/strong> &#8211; The Fort Worth Police Department is expected to release video from an officer-involved shooting that injured a Civilian Response Unit member.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Chief Eddie Garcia should share video and provide updates on the case during a news conference at 2 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">You\u2019ll be able to watch that video in a player on this page.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/050126-av-4-pm-vosotvo-fw-juliet-ln-ois_kdfw641f_1_00.00.41.28.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">CRU Officer Edward Zapata<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>was hurt while on a call last Tuesday. \u00a0He and his unit were ambushed while trying to take a vehicle burglary report on North Juliet Lane, according to Fort Worth police.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police said 39-year-old Angel Cantu started shooting from across the street. Shrapnel struck Zapata in the left eye. Officers quickly arrived and exchanged gunfire with Cantu as he fled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">A manhunt for him lasted for hours, and several schools were placed on lockdown. Cantu was eventually caught in a wooded area near Riverside Drive and Brittany Place.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">He\u2019s facing three counts of aggravated assault against a public servant. Jail records show he also has a parole violation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">His criminal history includes a felony robbery conviction in 2019.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Zapata was released from the hospital on Friday and is now home recovering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this story comes from the Fort Worth Police Department and past news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/organization\/fort-worth-police\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth Police Department<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; The Fort Worth Police Department is expected to release video from an officer-involved shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":773059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,6082,7371,26564,7372,50,12632,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-773058","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-fort-worth-police","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-organization","15":"tag-tarrant-county","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116517523170704241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773058","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=773058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}