Lake Worth police arrested a 20-year-old woman last Friday after a road-rage shooting that left a vehicle struck by gunfire in the 6500 block of Azle Avenue. Authorities said nobody was injured in the incident, and investigators moved quickly after reviewing surveillance video and other digital leads to identify a suspect.
Police identified the suspect as 20-year-old Mia Dominguez and said she was arrested in Fort Worth and booked on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. She is being held on $25,000 bond, according to WFAA. Lake Worth investigators told the station they used surveillance footage and assistance from the Fort Worth real-time crime center to zero in on the shooter.
How Police Tracked The Suspect
Investigators combined neighborhood camera footage with regional resources to match a vehicle and a person of interest to the scene. Fort Worth’s real-time crime center centralizes camera feeds, license-plate readers, and other data for partner agencies to search in near real time, which helps detectives move faster during active investigations. That kind of centralized surveillance has expanded across the country and drawn scrutiny from privacy advocates, according to WIRED. The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Atlas of Surveillance also documents that Lake Worth participates in voluntary camera-registry programs and uses automated plate readers in the region, tools police can tap during probes.
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