1 killed, 5 wounded in shooting inside bar in Fort Worth’s West 7th district

One person was killed and five were wounded early Sunday morning in an apparently gang-related shooting inside a bar on Bledsoe Street in Fort Worth’s West 7th entertainment district, police said.

Officers were called about 1:40 a.m. to the shooting scene at Social LIVV, 3005 Bledsoe St. They found the deceased victim inside the club with gunshot wounds to his upper torso, police said in a news release.

Five additional shooting victims were transported to hospitals by ambulance or in their own vehicles. The surviving victims were in stable condition as of about 7 a.m. Sunday.

In their preliminary investigation, homicide detectives determined that multiple unidentified suspects fired handguns inside the bar in what appears to be an unprovoked shooting, police said.

The suspects ran immediately after the shooting and before officers arrived. No arrests have been made at this time.

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office will identify the victim who died.

Police said the motive for the shooting appears to be gang-related, “but the investigation is still preliminary and subject to change.”

The block of Bledsoe Street where Sunday’s shooting occurred is where TCU student Wes Smith was fatally shot in the street in September 2023. The shooter in that case pleaded guilty to murder in June of this year and was sentenced to 60 years in prison.

Sunday’s shooting continued a violent weekend in Fort Worth after police investigated three homicides on Friday, including a stabbing across the street from Polytechnic High School that killed a 15-year-old student and critically injured his father, a shooting that killed an 18-year-old woman in a restaurant parking lot, and a shooting that killed a gas station employee during a reported robbery.

This story was originally published October 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM.