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Wes Smith, 21, from Germantown, Tennessee, was shot and killed in Fort Worth at 1am on Friday outside a bar in what police believe was a random attack. Matthew Purdy, 21, was arrested.
Officers observed “fresh blood” on Matthew Purdy’s backpack and say he hid his gun in his pants and took it apart while in the back of a police patrol car.
Mayor Mattie Parker says she knew the TCU student gunned down Friday morning in the West 7th district. “Our family is praying and grieving.”
FWPD Homicide Detectives arrested a man for murder after finding TCU student Wes Smith shot dead in the street.
Smith started at TCU just a couple years ago. He joined the Kappa Sigma fraternity, studied finance and joined the TCU football team.