Fort Worth police said officers responded to a shooting call at approximately 12:05 a.m. on Berke Road.
FORT WORTH, Texas — One person was shot twice by a Fort Worth homeowner during a possible attempted break-in, police said.
The Fort Worth Police Department said officers responded at approximately 12:05 a.m. Wednesday to the 4300 block of Berke Road for a shooting call. When officers got to the home, they located a pers on who had been shot twice. Fort Worth police said Wednesday they believe from their investigation that the person was shot by the homeowner during a possible attempted break-in.
“He just protected our family. Yeah, he did what he had to do,” said Christina, whose husband shot the man. “It was self-defense, what I’m afraid of is for the guy getting out maybe through bond or something and coming back.”
That lingering fear is why she asked us not to use her last name as she told us what happened.
“In this neighborhood, we see a lot of stuff going on but we never thought we were gonna go through something like this,” she said. “Something so scary.”
She says it all started just before midnight, she, her husband and three young kids had already gone to bed.
“We were already asleep. I started hearing our dogs barking,” she said. “So I woke up my husband, I’m like, hey, something is going on.”
They looked out the window and saw a man on their property acting erratically.
“He already had tore down some part of the wooden fence,” Christina said. “He was just going back and forth in the backyard to our driveway.”
She called 9-1-1 and her husband grabbed his gun.
“He came to our driveway and with a plank, a wooden plank from our fence, he broke our daughter’s bedroom window,” Christina said.
Her husband screamed at him to go away.
“Instead of him leaving, he came and tried to open the door, our kitchen door. So that’s when my husband had to fire his gun,” she said.
Fort Worth police were there minutes later.
“The suspect was taken to the hospital he was shot a couple of times,” said Fort Worth Police public information officer Tracy Carter. “This guy is lucky to be alive. The homeowner did what any of us would have done, we’d wanna protect our family.”
According to Fort Worth city jail records, Jeremy Black, 35, was booked Wednesday morning on suspicion of burglary of a habitation in connection to the incident.
Police say Christina’s husband isn’t facing any legal action, but the family is still shaken up.
“It was really scary, especially for my children,” Christina said.
“Officers are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident, and Gun Violence Detectives have been notified,” Fort Worth PD told WFAA by email.
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