Fort Worth Police Search For Teen's Killer
FORT WORTH (CBS 11) - Fort Worth police are searching for a teenager charged with the accidental death of a 14-year-old boy.
"He never hurt anybody, and now he's gone," said Adriana Nunez, the victim's mother.
Joe Nunez died Wednesday when police say another teen shot him.
Officers say Nunez was asleep on the couch at a house in the 3100 block of South Jennings, when 17-year-old Danny Guerrero mistakenly fired a gun while trying to unload it.
"From what they told me, it was an accident. But why do kids have guns?" asked Adriana Nunez.
Police now have a warrant for Guerrero's arrest for the charge of manslaughter.
Records show it's the third shooting at the same address in the last year.
In November of last year, records show someone was taken to the hospital, after being shot on the property.
Last February, an officer responded after hearing shots fired at a group of people there.
In every case, teenagers were present.
People lingering outside the home refused to comment, telling a CBS 11 crew they were "not welcome."
"I sleep right here on the floor with an airbed," said neighbor Magdalena Arista, indicating her sons' back bedroom.
Arista says she sometimes leaves her own bedroom in front of the house to avoid being hit by a stray bullet during drive by shootings aimed at her neighbor's home. "I feel scared sometimes," she said.
While she says police often patrol the area, she believes there's little they can do to stop the shootings.
Her children, meanwhile, worry for her safety.
"I guess their fear is, since their father passed away, of losing another parent," she said. The Nunez family says when Joe was shot he was visiting his own father, who was staying with a friend nearby.
His mother says she had heard about the troubled house in the neighborhood, but she didn't know her son was there.
"He just didn't get to live his life. He was only 14. He was still in middle school. He didn't have a chance," said his sister Stephanie.
