FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – We’re learning more about a shootout between Fort Worth police and a man who apparently just killed his father.
According to a statement from Fort Worth PD, investigators believed Martin Fleece killed his elderly father at a home on Wharton Drive on Friday, holed up in a backyard shed and opened fire on officers when they came out to check on him. Officers found Fleece with a single gunshot wound to the head.
Two officers were wounded in the shootout. Officer Ray Azucena was released from the hospital on Saturday. Officer Xavier Serrano is still hospitalized, but is expected to be released Wednesday.
Police credit the officer’s training and their body armor for saving their lives.
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