Fort Worth police responded to a shooting Tuesday afternoon on Interstate 35W near Ripy Street in South Fort Worth, shutting down rush hour traffic for nearly two hours..
One victim is receiving care at a local hospital with a gunshot wound to the arm, police say.
Authorities were dispatched to the scene at 3:19 p.m. A vehicle had pulled up beside another and opened fire on the driver, according to police, causing an accident.
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Traffic was heavily delayed in the area. About 4:30 p.m., all southbound lanes were blocked, and motorists were asked to exit to the service road, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.
A little after 6 p.m., TxDOT said in an update on Twitter that the lanes had reopened.
The shooting is the third along a Tarrant County roadway in the past 24 hours. A woman was fatally shot after 9 p.m. Monday in Hurst during a road-rage incident in the 1400 block of West Hurst Boulevard near Northeast Loop 820. Another person was reportedly shot in the hand about 5:20 a.m. Tuesday on the frontage road of I-35W near Felix Street, per KRLD-AM (1080).
No arrest was made in either case.