{"id":945071,"date":"2026-07-19T08:25:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/945071\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T08:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:25:33","slug":"fort-worth-man-charged-with-capital-murder-in-azle-double-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/945071\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Man Charged With Capital Murder In Azle Double Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"281\">A Fort Worth man has been arrested and charged with capital murder after investigators say he fatally shot his wife and mother-in-law inside an Azle home Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"283\" data-end=\"478\">Officers with the Azle Police Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1DMZPtPT1F\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">responded<\/a> to a reported suspicious situation around 9:30 a.m. Thursday at a residence in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/200+Stewart+Bend+Ct,+Azle,+TX+76020\/@32.884772,-97.6376212,12z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x864de24f88a462c7:0x2b0b23600bb7a17e!8m2!3d32.8847675!4d-97.5552237!16s%2Fg%2F11c5m3hfjc?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDcxMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">200 block of Stewart Bend Court<\/a>, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"480\" data-end=\"667\">Due to the circumstances, officers entered the home to conduct a welfare check, where they found two adult women \u2014 identified as a mother and daughter \u2014 dead from apparent gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"669\" data-end=\"848\">Investigators from the Azle Police Department\u2019s Criminal Investigation Division worked alongside the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Rangers to identify a suspect.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"850\" data-end=\"1057\">Police said evidence collected at the scene, along with information obtained through FLOCK license plate camera technology, led investigators to identify 64-year-old <strong>Joseph Morris Gordon<\/strong>, of Fort Worth, as the suspect.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1059\" data-end=\"1226\">The Texas Rangers took Gordon into custody. He is being <a href=\"https:\/\/portal-txparker.tylertech.cloud\/PublicAccess\/JailingSearch.aspx?ID=400\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">held<\/a> at the Parker County Jail while being processed on two counts of capital murder, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1228\" data-end=\"1334\">Police identified the victims only as Gordon\u2019s wife and mother-in-law. Their names have not been released.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1336\" data-end=\"1448\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The investigation remains active, and authorities said no additional information is being released at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth man has been arrested and charged with capital murder after investigators say he fatally shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":945072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,380523,378809,380519,36405,7371,380525,7372,378808,380524,380522,380521,358,42653,1278,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,380520],"class_list":["post-945071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-azle-double-murder","tag-azle-police-department","tag-azle-texas-shooting","tag-double-murder","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-man-capital-murder","tag-fortworth","tag-joseph-gordon","tag-joseph-morris-gordon-arrest","tag-parker-county-jail","tag-stewart-bend-court","tag-texas","tag-texas-department-of-public-safety","tag-texas-rangers","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wife-mother-in-law-killed-azle"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116945690897675619","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945071","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=945071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}