On Tuesday night, two armed men were shot and killed by a Fort Worth police officer and an arson investigator. On Monday night, three were killed and 11 were shot after gunfire erupted at ComoFest.
In an effort to curve violent crime, the City of Fort Worth is officially set to begin its One Second Collaborative with United Way of Tarrant County this summer.
"We put in over $1,000,000 this year. We're in the process that they have started having meetings and group sessions to get people on the ground to actually have other organizations to come together and insist on the gun violence," Chris Nettles, Councilman District 8 of Fort Worth said.“We need parents, neighborhoods, brothers in the community to help us fight this gun violence,” Nettles said.
Chyna Norman was born and raised on the South Side of Fort Worth. She said she remembers,"just a lot of gun violence, gangs, like just popular people like, in the area.", Norman's neighborhood is considered a hotspot with more than ten shootings reported from March 8, 2021 to April 18, 2021. "I feel like at a certain point people came around to try to shut it down, but, you know, of course, it will die down. Then they'll start right back up because, I mean, this area is not you can't really avoid that type of thing," Norman said."It's like it goes unnoticed. It just keeps happening because there's something that we're used to," Norman said."If everybody can just get on one accord with things, that'll be good.
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