An 18-year-old has become the fourth teenager arrested in the killing of a north Fort Worth woman, a case that has been winding through the courts since late last year and rattling a tight circle of family and friends.
Fort Worth police identified the latest suspect as 18-year-old Jerry Lira, who was booked into the Fort Worth city jail and later transferred to the Tarrant County Jail, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Detectives arrested Lira yesterday after developing evidence that they say links him to the November shooting, the paper reported. Authorities have released few details about what that evidence is or what they believe the motive may have been.
The shooting unfolded on Nov. 20, 2025, when officers were dispatched around 6:30 p.m. to a home in the 2500 block of Northwest 24th Street. They arrived to find two women with gunshot wounds; 40-year-old Elizabeth Ann Juarez was pronounced dead at the scene, while the second woman was treated for a non-life-threatening injury, according to The Dallas Morning News. Investigators said Juarez was shot in a front bedroom, and homicide detectives have led the probe since…