Fort Worth Residents: Deadly Shooting Started Over Sunglasses
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FORT WORTH (CBS 11 NEWS) - Relatives, friends, and residents are devastated after a man is gunned down in Fort Worth's Highland Hills neighborhood.
Resident Kathy Jones said, "I think it was a very ruthless death. It was very much unnecessary."
Unnecessary, she and others at the scene said, because they hear the deadly shooting began over a pair of sunglasses.
Relatives identify the victim as 33-year-old Ronald Wyatt. His cousin, Eric Wyatt, said, "I believe it was basically senseless."
A resident, who wishes to remain anonymous, said that right before the shooting he heard the suspect arguing with the victim, over a speaker phone, about a pair of sunglasses. The neighbor says he heard the suspect tell the victim "one of us is going to go."
The resident says as Wyatt then drove down the 1400 block of Stafford Drive, the suspect got a gun and fired multiple shots toward the car.
Other neighbors said the victim was backing up to escape the flying bullets and ended up hitting a house. Police found Ronald Wyatt dead inside his car.
Eric Wyatt said, "We have a big family and it's kind of hard on everybody right now. Ya'll got to put the guns down, we're grown ups now."
As for Kathy Jones, she grew up in Highland Hills. "We all come together as one big family. When one hurts, we all hurt."
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