A man shot early Sunday morning in Arlington managed to drive into neighboring Fort Worth before he died outside a QuikTrip gas station, according to police. The shooting has left investigators with an open murder case, no named suspect, and no identified victim as of Sunday.
According to FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth, the man was shot in Arlington before driving into Fort Worth, where he was ultimately found. Fort Worth police said East Division officers were dispatched at 3:08 a.m. Sunday to the 6600 block of Brentwood Stair Road, where they discovered the man dead inside his vehicle outside a QuikTrip. The store, located at 6601 Brentwood Stair Road, operates around the clock as a convenience store and fuel stop, per its own QuikTrip store listing.
Fort Worth police said the man had suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and died at the scene. Command staff and crime scene detectives responded to the location early Sunday, the station's report notes, but because the shooting itself originated in Arlington, Fort Worth police referred further inquiries to the Arlington Police Department.
Arlington Treats Scene as Murder Investigation
Arlington police are treating the original shooting scene at 3100 E. Park Row Drive as a murder investigation, the same report states. As of the report, the suspect remained at large, the victim's name had not been released, and investigators had not disclosed a motive.
Same QuikTrip Was Scene of a 2021 Shooting
This is not the first time violence has struck that stretch of Brentwood Stair Road. Back on January 31, 2021, a man was shot outside the same QuikTrip in east Fort Worth, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Police at the time said a possible fight between two men led to that shooting, which left the victim wounded in the arm and chest and hospitalized in critical condition. No suspects had been identified or arrested as of 5:30 p.m. that day, the paper reported.
A separate shooting at a QuikTrip parking lot in Fort Worth, reported by NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, also left one person hospitalized with serious injuries after officers responding from a nearby Domino's heard gunfire and found the victim shot while inside a vehicle. That report did not specify a date, so it cannot be tied to Sunday's incident.
Fort Worth's Homicide Numbers Climbed in 2025
Sunday's death comes amid a broader rise in deadly violence across Fort Worth. The Star-Telegram reported that the city recorded 81 homicides in 2025, an 8% increase of six more than the prior year, though the paper also noted that medical examiner and police records separately listed homicide as the manner of death for 86 people that year. The first half of 2025 alone saw 43 killings, up from 31 during the same stretch in 2024, according to the same report.
That Star-Telegram analysis also found that the deadliest hours for Fort Worth homicides fell between midnight and 6 a.m., with 2 a.m. standing out as the single hour with the most killings — a window that overlaps with when Sunday's shooting was reported. About 80% of the city's 2025 homicide victims were male, and gunshot wounds caused the overwhelming majority of those deaths, the paper reported, even as crimes against persons citywide dropped more than 10% and overall Group A offenses fell more than 13% from the year before. Fort Worth had recorded 88 killings in 2023 and 101 in 2022, per the same analysis.
Arlington's own numbers moved in the opposite direction. The city recorded two fewer homicides in 2025 than the year before, alongside a 12% drop in overall crime, according to the Star-Telegram's report. The Arlington Police Department separately said its 2025 annual report compiled department achievements, new initiatives, and crime statistics for the year, though the underlying figures from that report were not detailed.
No arrest or charging information has been announced in Sunday's case. Hoodline has not confirmed whether Arlington police have released further details on the victim or a potential suspect.
