Hamzah Foraj was just 26 years old, delivering a food order with his wife riding beside him, when a gray four-door Dodge pickup truck nearly hit their vehicle near Kingswood Drive and Altamesa Boulevard on the night of September 11, 2021. Foraj tapped his horn. Moments later, someone in the truck opened fire through the rear window, and Foraj was shot in the head. He died a short time later at a hospital. Five years on, Fort Worth police still don't know who pulled the trigger, and they're renewing their appeal for anyone with information to come forward.
According to FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth, Foraj was working as a DoorDash driver at the time of the shooting, and his wife was in the vehicle with him when the confrontation escalated in an instant. Fort Worth police have said they do not know the identity of the shooter or any suspects involved, and detectives are hoping renewed public attention will shake loose a lead that's eluded them for half a decade.
Investigators identified the suspect vehicle only as a gray four-door Dodge pickup truck, a detail that came from surveillance footage and eyewitness interviews gathered in the days after the shooting, according to WFAA. No license plate or specific description of the occupants inside the truck has ever been made public, leaving detectives with a thin trail of physical evidence years after the killing.
A Split-Second Escalation on a Fort Worth Street
Foraj and his wife, Idalia Gisselle Cerna, had married in 2020 and were out making a delivery together around 8 p.m. that September night when the pickup truck nearly struck their car, according to the earlier account from the same FOX 4 report. Cerna was in the passenger seat and survived the shooting uninjured, but she watched the encounter go from a near-miss to gunfire in seconds after her husband tapped the horn.
Fort Worth police have urged anyone who saw something that night, or who has heard information about the shooting since, to contact investigators. Buddy Calzada, speaking on behalf of the effort to solve the case, said there is somebody who knows what took place and that police are asking that person to step forward. Tipsters can remain anonymous and can call 817-392-4382 with any information.
Part of a Wider Pattern of Road Rage Violence
Foraj's murder sits inside a larger and troubling trend across Texas. A multi-year analysis by The Trace and Everytown for Gun Safety found the state recorded 741 firearm-involved road rage incidents between 2014 and 2023, with someone shot in 72 percent of those cases, resulting in 146 deaths and more than 430 injuries. Nationally, the numbers are similarly grim: a December 2024 report from the Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund found that 483 people were shot in road rage incidents across the country in 2023, causing 118 deaths and averaging one person wounded or killed roughly every 18 hours.
That same Everytown research found that states without public concealed carry permit requirements saw nearly triple the rate of road rage shooting victimizations compared to states with the strictest public carry standards — a relevant data point given that Texas enacted permitless concealed carry in 2021, the same year Foraj was killed. In response to the state's road rage toll, Texas lawmakers passed Senate Bill 3031 in May 2025, signed by Governor Greg Abbott, elevating penalties for road rage shootings to first-degree felonies carrying five years to life in prison, effective September 1, 2025. The law was backed by families of Texas road rage victims, per the same Trace report.
Tarrant County Roads Have Stayed Dangerous
The danger hasn't faded locally. In November 2025, WFAA reported a surge in freeway road rage shootings across Tarrant County, with AAA Texas spokesperson Daniel Armbruster saying aggressive driver interactions had noticeably intensified across the metro region. Hoodline has documented several more recent cases, including a road rage shooting that wounded a bystander involving four detained teens earlier this month, and a Fort Worth man accused of firing through a windshield after tailgating another driver near Poolville.
Prosecuting these cases remains difficult even when suspects are eventually identified. In July, Hoodline reported that a Tarrant County judge sentenced a 24-year-old driver to 10 years in prison for tampering with evidence in a 2025 Fort Worth road rage homicide, after a jury deadlocked on the underlying murder charge in that road-rage cover-up case. Investigators in that case relied on license plate readers and dashcam footage to eventually locate the vehicle involved — resources that, per WFAA's earlier reporting on the Foraj case, were never available to detectives working his shooting.
Gig Workers Face Elevated Risk
Foraj's death also underscores the risks faced by gig economy delivery drivers, who often work alone at night in unpredictable environments. In January 2021, just months before Foraj was killed, Haltom City police arrested two 14-year-olds for capital murder in the fatal stabbing of 31-year-old Uber Eats driver Ryan Munsie Graham while she was making food deliveries, according to CBSDFW.
Fort Worth police maintain a dedicated Cold Case Unit within its Homicide Unit, where a designated detective actively re-examines unsolved homicides and processes new community leads, according to the Fort Worth Police Department. Cold case investigations rely heavily on public tips to generate fresh leads, and detectives are hoping this renewed appeal in Foraj's case produces exactly that. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call 817-392-4382, and tipsters can remain anonymous.
