Two related fatal shootings by police in Fort Worth on Saturday morning came after months of block parties and disturbances in the area, a resident of the neighborhood said.
The resident, Carolyn Green, said she had been trying to clean up her neighborhood for months prior to the overnight incident, which ended in a hail of gunfire on her front lawn in the 4200 block of Wiman Drive, in east Fort Worth.
At about midnight on Saturday as another block party was being held, residents in the area called police to report that shots were fired, Police Chief Eddie Garcia said. When officers arrived, they confronted an armed man and ordered him to drop his gun, Garcia said…