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Traffic resumes after motorist opens fire on I-35W in Fort Worth, injuring 1

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.

Traffic backs up along southbound Interstate 35W near Hattie Street, Tuesday, July 11, 2023...
Traffic backs up along southbound Interstate 35W near Hattie Street, Tuesday, July 11, 2023 in Fort Worth. Fort Worth police shut down the southbound lanes after one person was shot on the interstate near Ripy Street on Tuesday afternoon.(Elías Valverde II / Staff Photographer)
The investigation is still ongoing and the Gang Unit has been notified, police said.

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.

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