A gambling dispute in Fort Worth’s Como neighborhood earlier this year ended in a burst of violence during which a man was robbed and killed, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
Police arrested 31-year-old Kennard Ivory on Tuesday in connection with the shooting death of 55-year-old Claude Jeter Smith, according to online records. Smith was shot in the dispute at Ivory’s home on the night of May 4, and died just over a month later from complications of his injuries, the Star-Telegram previously reported.
Smith gambled multiple times at Ivory’s home in the 5400 block of Blackmore Avenue from February 2025 up until the night before he was shot, according to the affidavit. Ivory, as the host of the gambling events, received a cut of the winnings, police wrote in the warrant…