this Mother\u2019s Day weekend<\/a>, the sound of the engine carries a painful reminder. Coleman will no longer attend future Ryderz events. McKnight is thankful for the last time they crossed paths.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019ve known him for so long. I just saw him a couple of weeks ago. I heard about this when I woke up Sunday morning,\u201d McKnight said.<\/p>\n
Coleman was shot and killed while working a part-time security shift at Club New Start on Miller Avenue in Fort Worth. Police said officers responded to reports of gunfire across the street from the club, where they found Coleman and a second victim who survived the attack.<\/p>\n
According to court documents, the surviving victim told investigators a man shot Coleman multiple times before turning the gun on her. The affidavit states the suspect then pistol-whipped her with the butt of the firearm before fleeing the area.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe sustained non-life-threatening injuries to her shoulder, and she was taken to the hospital,” Fort Worth Police Spokesperson Tracy Carter said. “He (the suspect) was in the car with a couple of people. And again, thanks to the witnesses and cameras that we have, we may apprehend them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fort Worth homicide detectives later obtained an arrest warrant for 21-year-old Dedrian Freeman, who is now charged with murder in the case. Officers also arrested his father, Dadrian Freeman, Sr., 46, for possession of a firearm by a felon, and his 22-year-old brother, \u00a0Dadrian Freeman, Jr., on an unrelated probation violation.<\/p>\n
“Our homicide investigators are going to continue to talk to people. If people have information, we\u2019re asking them to call us, so we can get the exact details of what happened here,” Carter said. “This is a community that I grew up in, not far from here. But it\u2019s just that we\u2019re seeing people lose their lives to senseless gun violence. As I always keep saying, we have to learn emotional intelligence. We should be able to just talk to each other and teach our kids that this is not a way to handle anything.”<\/p>\n
Those same words are echoed by Coleman’s friends.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable. I am at a loss for words, like, for the whole situation,\u201d McKnight said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt hurts inside,\u201d Ryderz Car Club President Cliff Sparks said.<\/p>\n
Sparks said the car club is now focused on honoring Coleman\u2019s memory. After consulting with the family, he hit social media with an organized event he hopes will result in a huge turnout and help turn people away from using guns to solve their differences.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking to see what his mother is going to have to see her son lying on the ground on Mother\u2019s Day,\u201d Cliff Sparks said.<\/p>\n
At the shooting scene, a fellow security guard placed a handheld radio on the ground in a flowerbed near the shooting scene in Coleman\u2019s memory, serving as another reminder of the life lost too soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking to see what his mother is going to have to see her son lying on the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":790323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-790322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116559820182318177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790322","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=790322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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