Fort Worth police have arrested a suspect in connection with the murder of a man whose body was found stuffed inside a storage container early last month.
Tisha Hulsey, 51, was arrested on Monday and charged with the murder of 52-year-old Dwight Hood of Lancaster. Hood’s body was discovered inside a plastic storage container discarded on the roadside in a remote area in northwest Fort Worth on June 5.
According to investigators, Hood was killed at Hulsey’s apartment in the 3200 block of Las Vegas Trail before his body was dumped in the 3300 block of McCandless Street.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office has not yet released the victim’s cause of death, and police have not released any further information about what led them to the suspect, citing the ongoing investigation. The relationship, if there was any, between the suspect and the victim is unknown.
In neighboring Dallas, 102 criminal homicides have been reported so far this year as of July 2, according to the City of Dallas crime analytics dashboard. Crime is particularly rampant in Dallas’ downtown area.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, the vast majority of murder victims in Dallas were black or Hispanic last year. The trend appears to be continuing in 2024, with black and Hispanic victims comprising more than 92% of murder victims thus far, per the City’s victim demographics data.
The Dallas Police Department has been hindered in its efforts to stamp out crime by a chronic shortage of police officers. The department only fields about 3,000 officers, even though a prior City analysis recommended roughly 4,000 for a city the size of Dallas. City leaders have only budgeted $654 million for DPD this fiscal year, much less than police departments in other high-crime areas like Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City were allocated.