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Originally posted by Star Telegram
ORT WORTH
Police are on the scene of a shooting in west Fort Worth where “all hell broke loose” and an officer has been shot multiple times.
One suspect was shot and killed and one is at large, authorities said.
The officer is in critical condition and was transported by helicopter ambulance to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth.
"It's painful. We assisted Euless (in the recent officer shooting there) and we welcome everyone's prayers,” said Cpl. Tracey Knight, police spokeswoman.
The suspect is described by police as a 20-year-old white male, 6-feet-4, 170 pounds and “remains loose in the area,” Knight said.
Officers were attempting to stop a vehicle to serve a warrant, police said, when the two suspects continued driving from Hulen Street to the 2800 block of Longvue Avenue, where they fled from their car.
Officers pursued the suspects into a wooded area and a gunfight ensued.
The suspect was dead at the scene and the officer had to be carried from the wooded area before he could be transported to the hospital.
Police are continuing to scour the area, located off West Camp Bowie Drive near Longvue Avenue, in the west Fort Worth area.
A witness, who declined to give his name, described a chaotic and confusing scene.
“It looked like all hell broke loose,” the man said. “Cops came from everywhere. We saw them head south of Camp Bowie West. We thought maybe a bank had been robbed.”
An officer on the scene said the at-large suspect is believed to be armed with a rifle.
Streets in the area, including Longvue and Chapin Road, were blocked off.
Several passers-by stopped at the intersection to ask others what happened. One man who works at a nearby company said the area where the shooting occurred has several older rental homes and a wooded area.
Police were searching a wooded area around Mary's Creek, located south of Camp Bowie West toward Interstate 20.
Several patrons at nearby Randi's Place watched television coverage of the incident at the bar, stunned that it was unfolding less than a mile from their bar stools.
“At first I though there was a wreck, but then I thought, that's too many police cars for a wreck,” a woman behind the bar said.
The shooting is the second officer involved-shooting in Tarrant County in the past two weeks.
On March 1, Euless police officer David Hofer was fatally shot about 2:50 p.m. after he and two other officers responded to a report of shots being at J.A. Carr Park in Euless.
The shooter, Jorge Brian Gonzalez, a 22-year-old drug addict who had been released from jail four hours earlier, was shot and killed by Euless police.
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