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Jacob De La Rosa is being remembered as a quiet and kind-hearted boy who dreamed of a bright future, his family says. The 15-year-old was stabbed in Fort Worth and died at JPS Hospital on Friday.
Family photo courtesy of GoFundMe
A 15-year-old boy died Friday in a hospital emergency room from stab wounds in a case that Fort Worth police are investigating as a homicide, authorities said.
Jacob De La Rosa died shortly after 4 p.m. in the ER at John Peter Smith Hospital, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office website.
Fort Worth police said in a news release that officers were called about 3:45 p.m. Friday to the 2700 block of East Rosedale Street to investigate the stabbing. When officers arrived, everyone involved had left the location.
Officers later located a juvenile suspect who admitted to cutting two other people during a fight. The juvenile, whose name has not been released, told police it was self-defense.
Police learned that De La Rosa had died at the hospital and that a second person who was stabbed was hospitalized in critical condition.
Detectives are continuing to investigate this case and will provide information to the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office for review to determine any possible charges, police said.
“What happened to Jacob should not have happened to anyone,” the GoFundMe states. “The pain of losing him in this way — sudden, cruel, and preventable — is something no family should endure.”
Jacob is described in the fundraiser as “a quiet, kind-hearted soul.” He had just celebrated his 15th birthday.
“Despite growing up in difficult circumstances, Jacob never gave up on dreaming of a brighter future,” Jesus Alanis wrote in the GoFundMe. “One where he could give back, make his family proud, and rise above the violence that too often surrounded him.”
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