CRIME & SAFETY
1 killed at Fort Worth apartment complex
FORT WORTH, Texas - Fort Worth police are looking for the people who killed a man overnight at an apartment complex. Police said the victim and several others were involved in an altercation. The killers shot the victim while chasing him through The Tides Apartments on Boca Canyon Drive, near...
A woman fed a bull a banana here and there, but the cops were called when he showed up at her back door
MANSFIELD, Texas — Bulls (apparently) love bananas. Latoya Keeling of Mansfield learned that pretty organically Wednesday night when a young bull surprisingly looked through her back window. "He walked up to the window and peeked his eyeball through there like, 'I know y'all home!'" Keeling said with a laugh.
4-year-old dies after being swept away in North Texas flood waters
JOHNSON COUNTY — A 4-year-old child died after being swept away by flood waters Sunday morning.According to Johnson County Emergency Management, someone called 911 around 2 a.m. to report a car that was stuck in swift-moving water. The caller saw two adults and a young boy try to get out of the car and get to dry land. But all three were swept into the flood waters. Johnson County Emergency Management director Jamie Moore rushed to the scene off CR 528 in rural Johnson County. Police, fire and other first responders searched for the victims through the night. A man and woman were found around 5 a.m. and taken to a local hospital but the 4-year-old was found dead two hours later.CBS News Texas reached out to the Johnson County Sheriff's Department to find out if the road was closed at the time of the incident and how high the flood waters were in that area. We have not heard back yet. This is a developing story.*The child was initially identified as a 5-year-old. Johnson County Emergency Management and the Medical Exainer's Office identified the child as 4 years old.
Another student charged after Fort Worth school attack plan with student 'watch list' discovered by staff
FORT WORTH, Texas — Three students from Wilson Middle School are now facing a felony terroristic threat charge after staff within the Northwest Independent School district discovered an online document containing a school attack plan with a 'watch list' naming 25 students and seven school employees. Initially, district officials...
Fort Worth mourns loss of longtime fire captain
FORT WORTH, Texas - The Fort Worth Fire Department is mourning the loss of one of their own. The department announced the death of Captain Thaddeus Raven on Sunday. Raven, 57, worked for the Fort Worth Fire Department for 25 years. "During his service, not only was he an exemplary...
Young bull breaks out in search of bananas at neighbor’s house
MANSFIELD, Texas (WFAA) - A Texas woman who lives next door to some young bulls has learned an important lesson about not feeding farm animals after one of the bulls broke through a fence to find her. Latoya Keeling had been occasionally feeding the two young bulls who live next...
FOX 4 Crime Files: Week of April 28
Here are the top crime stories for the week of April 28, 2024: A Fort Worth drive-by injures 6 people, including children, an attack on a train conductor, 2 people charged with a murder in McKinney and Dallas ISD police discuss how a gun got into Wilmer-Hutchins High School.
‘I thought I was going to lose my kids': Parents of children injured in Fort Worth drive-by shooting speak
When shots rang out in front of Druscilla Rodriguez's home at Miramar Apartments in Fort Worth on Wednesday evening, she went into "mommy mode." "I ran out to get my son, threw him to the ground, but he was already hit," she recalled. She quickly went from her six-year-old, Ka'deon,...
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