Fort Worth police investigating apparent murder-suicide attempt

A shooting in Fort Worth on Friday morning left a man dead and a woman hospitalized in an apparent murder-suicide attempt.

Officers were dispatched about 9:20 a.m. to the 6400 block of Meadowbrook Drive, near Interstate 820.

Police said a husband and wife, both in their 50s, had an argument, and the man shot the woman multiple times in her lower body. The man then shot himself, police said.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said, and the woman was taken to the hospital. Police said she was in surgery Friay afternoon.

Their names were not released.

The incident comes a day after an apparent murder-suicide in Lewisville. A woman was fatally shot by her former husband in an apartment complex parking lot before he shot and killed himself, according to police.

October is nationally recognized as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. According to the Texas Council on Family Violence, 165 women were killed by a male intimate partner in the state last year.

Altogether in 2021, 204 Texans were killed by an intimate partner. Three-quarters of those homicides were committed with a firearm and 29% of perpetrators killed themselves as well, the group found.

The national domestic violence hotline is 800-799-7233. More information and resources can be found on the Texas Department of Health and Human Services’ Family Violence Program website.