{"id":996711,"date":"2026-08-12T20:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/996711\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:27:21","slug":"trackdown-who-is-the-fort-worth-riverside-drive-party-gunman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/996711\/","title":{"rendered":"Trackdown: Who is the Fort Worth Riverside Drive party gunman?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><strong>FORT WORTH, Texas<\/strong> &#8211; Fort Worth police need help with a hard-to-solve case involving a shooting that happened at an after-hours party two months ago.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Two people were shot, and one man died.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The shooting happened around 4:30 a.m. on June 14 in a vacant lot in the 2300 block of Riverside Drive near Powell Street.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police said hundreds of people were gathered and someone fired a weapon.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">One man was shot in the leg and survived. But Jonathan Wayne Scott\u2019s injuries were fatal.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/081226-pb-trackdown-fw-riverside-shooting-broll_kd_00.05.01.50.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Fort Worth Police Officer Buddy Calzada said the 42-year-old victim was innocent. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;We don\u2019t believe there was any type of altercation. We believe he was just an innocent individual that was at this party and died from somebody that was reckless and shot a gun into the crowd,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Calzada said detectives don\u2019t have much to go on in this case. There are no photos or videos of a suspect. But they believe someone knows who fired the gun at the party.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;I think the hardest thing is that, you know, somebody could just take a life and not come forward or somebody that knows who did it and still not come forward with that type of information,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Anyone who has information should contact Fort Worth Police Det. Douglas Day, who has been working on the case, at 817-392-4341.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Anonymous tips can also be submitted through Tarrant County Crime Stoppers at 817-469-TIPS or <a href=\"http:\/\/469tips.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">http:\/\/469tips.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this story comes from Fort Worth Officer Buddy Calzada and the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/series\/trackdown\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trackdown<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; Fort Worth police need help with a hard-to-solve case involving a shooting that happened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":996712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,6082,7371,7372,50,6166,7375,358,15735,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-996711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-news","tag-series","tag-tarrant-county","tag-texas","tag-trackdown","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117084426760741724","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996711","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=996711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/996712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}