Fort Worth shooting leaves at least 3 dead, 8 hurt
- Shooting happened around midnight
- One of those killed was a teenager
- Nobody has been arrested
(NewsNation) — Three people are dead and eight more are hurt after an overnight shooting in Fort Worth, Texas, police said Tuesday.
Nobody has been arrested and police had not identified any suspects in the shooting , which took place at 11:47 p.m. Monday in the Fort Worth neighborhood of Como, police said. Police said none of the injured are suspects in the shooting.
The shooting erupted about two hours after the end of the Independence Day celebration called ComoFest in the historically Black neighborhood. That celebration had been held in a park a several blocks away from the area where the shots were fired.
Police said Tuesday that the shooting on Horne Street, where a large crowd had gathered, was “separate from and unrelated to ComoFest.”
One of the victims was pronounced dead at the scene, and an additional two at hospitals.
Paul Willis, 18, was among those killed, his mother, Ka’Desha Weatherly, told The Dallas Morning News. Weatherly told the newspaper that after hearing what sounded like 100 gunshots late Monday, she began running down the street to find her son and nephews. She found her nephews but not her son. She said she hadn’t realized that she’d run past his body.
Cynthia Santos, 22, was also killed, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office, which said she died at a hospital early Tuesday.
Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker said she was “devastated” by the news of the shooting.
“My heart breaks for the victims, their loved ones, and the entire Como community that works to build positivity and celebration in their community and our city,” Parker said on Twitter.
One of the 11 victims is a juvenile, police said.
The shooting came hours after one in Philadelphia that left five people dead. Authorities there say a gunman wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire on several city blocks. An arrest has been made.
And in Baltimore, a shooting Sunday at a block party killed two people and injured more than two dozen others. Police are still searching for a suspect.