Police say the shooting started during a fight between one of the victims and 27-year-old Kanard Trent Murphy, who also suffered a non-life-threatening injury.
FORT WORTH, Texas — Helen Portis is one of several homeowners in southwest Fort Worth who says they called the police about illegal fireworks activity on the Fourth of July. She lives just a few feet from the Crystal Clean Car Wash on West Cleburne Road. fireworks she heard ended up being gunfire.Portis is concerned about what happened that night at the car wash near her home. She told WFAA she started hearing fireworks around 8 p.m. from crowds gathered in the bays at the car wash.
A spokesperson for Fort Worth Police says officers learned that three others who were shot went to the hospital on their own with non-life-threatening injuries. According to the affidavit, prior domestic violence issues between Kanard and the mother caused some of her relatives to dislike Kanard and when he arrived at the party, one of them confronted him about it.
The affidavit states that the relative ran toward a parked car in the car wash parking lot and Kanard, who was still firing at him, hit the back of the car several times. According to Fort Worth PD, the rifle was a .300 blackout, matching the shell casings found in the area where the victims were shot.
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