The Fort Worth Police Department is investigating a murder after a shooter killed one victim and wounded two others on Memorial Day weekend.
Police officers responded to a shooting call in the Fairhaven neighborhood of southeast Fort Worth on May 25, according to a press release. Detectives found a shooter had wounded three victims, one of whom later died.
When officers responded to the area near 4200 Carmel Ave. at 3:18 p.m., they found a victim with “at least one gunshot wound,” according to the release. First responders took the victim to a nearby hospital “where he was pronounced deceased.”
The victim who died after the shooting is 21-year-old Alvion Ferrell Norris, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner. He died at 4:04 p.m. in the “hospital ER” of “multiple gunshot wounds.” His manner of death has been labeled a “homicide.”
Detectives reported the shooting victims were “in a parked car” when the suspect approached the vehicle and “had a brief conversation with them,” according to the release.
“The suspect produced a handgun and shot into the vehicle striking all three victims,” the release reads. The victim who later died – now identified as Norris – “exited the vehicle to run away but collapsed a short distance from the vehicle.” The suspect then fled the scene on foot.
The two other victims “drove themselves to a local hospital” for treatment of their wounds, according to the release. “Their condition is unknown at this time.” The Fort Worth Police Department’s Homicide Unit is investigating the killing.
The Dallas Police Department investigated three murders that took place across the city during Memorial Day weekend, as The Dallas Express reported at the time. Fort Worth police also investigated two shooting deaths the previous week after arguments turned violent.