A young man is dead, and two other people were wounded by gunfire following a shooting at a high school prom afterparty in Fort Worth overnight.
Fort Worth Police said the shooting happened at a home near 3900 Singleleaf Lane just before 1 a.m. on Sunday.
Officers who arrived at the scene said they could not find the victims but continued to investigate and spoke with witnesses.
According to police, two people arrived at John Peter Smith Hospital by a private vehicle around 1:15 a.m. and were admitted after suffering from gunshot wounds. As of Sunday, the two victims are in stable condition.
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A third victim, later identified as 19-year-old Daniel Olalde Moreno, went to Harris Southwest Hospital in a private car at 2:15 a.m. with apparent gunshot wounds. Moreno, considered to be in critical condition at the time, was airlifted to John Peter Smith Hospital and placed in the intensive care unit.
Unfortunately, Moreno died at 1:21 p.m. from his injuries.
Eric Tatum’s home still bears a mark from the chaos: a bullet came through his garage door during the shooting, a reminder of when this quiet stretch of Singleleaf Lane erupted.
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“I could hear the sound of cars driving back and forth screeching,” Tatum told NBC 5. “And then all of a sudden, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom in sequence.”
The woman who owns the home where the shooting happened told NBC 5 this was a prom afterparty for her son, who attends Arlington Heights High School.
She said hundreds of uninvited guests showed up, and a fight broke out over a dice game.
“It was something that was really, really out of control at that point,” Tatum said.
After the gunshots went off, witnesses told NBC 5 they heard screaming and saw teens running through the street.
Tatum said he was concerned about seeing a young man standing by one of his home’s windows.
“Just a little bit on edge, just a little bit on edge,” Tatum said. “And the first thing you think about is safety.”
As Fort Worth Police search for at least one shooter, people caught in the crossfire are thinking of the victims.
“Acts of violence like that have a tendency to have a ripple effect because it doesn’t just affect the one victim,” said Tatum. “You have the families, then you have the friends, and then you have people like me that don’t even know them and feel for them.”
NBC 5 reached out to the Fort Worth Police Department to ask if they have any information about the victims of the shooting. We’re waiting to hear back.
