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Name Not Disclosed

Age :

Gender : Male

Race : Unknown

Date : 09/09/2021

Location : 1900 block of SE Loop 820

City : Fort Worth

County : Tarrant

State : Texas

Agency : Fort Worth Police Department

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Gunshot

Event : Killed by police during traffic stop

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 09/09/2021, Fort Worth Police Department officers shot and killed an unidentified man during a traffic stop in the 1900 block of SE Loop 820 in southeast Fort Worth. The shooting occurred during the evening hours. The original Fort Worth Star-Telegram, CBS DFW and NBC DFW reports all covered the shooting, but the surviving archived/indexed material contains unusually little detail about the encounter.
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Officers had initiated a traffic stop before the shooting. During the encounter, Fort Worth police officers fired at the driver, killing him at the scene. The contemporaneous public reporting did not establish the specific traffic violation or other reason that caused police to initiate the stop.
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The original reporting did not publicly identify the man, give his age or disclose his race. A search of later reporting and indexed records through 2026 did not produce a reliable subsequent identification that can be tied to this shooting.
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The available reporting likewise does not establish what police alleged the man did immediately before officers fired, whether police alleged he possessed or displayed a weapon, how many officers fired, how many rounds were discharged, or whether any non-police witnesses recorded the encounter.
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The location reported for the shooting, the 1900 block of SE Loop 820, is an industrial/commercial area. Public property records identify 1900 SE Loop 820 as a large industrial property. This does not establish that the shooting occurred on that property rather than on the adjacent roadway.
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The original reports stated that the police shooting was under investigation. Later publicly searchable material located for this update does not identify the involved officers or establish a subsequent criminal prosecution arising from the shooting.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND
The Fort Worth police officers who shot and killed the man have not been publicly identified.
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The Fort Worth Police Department has a substantial documented history of controversial uses of deadly force and accountability problems, but no officer-specific history can responsibly be attached to this case without identifying the officers who fired.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article254143698.html
https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/09/09/fort-worth-police-shooting-investigation/
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/police-investigating-officer-involved-shooting-in-fort-worth/2740145/