Community leaders address gun violence after rapper and daughter were killed at Forest Hill Car Wash

Community leaders and organizations, including the city council of Fort Worth, Chris Nettles and the Mayor of Forest Hill, Stephanie Boardingham, organize a press conference at 3 p.m. to eliminate weapons after the rapper Lil Ronnie, the rapper of Fort Worth, at the late Monday morning during a car wash.

The Forest Hill police reacted to Slappy's car wash at Forest Hill Drive north of the I-20 shortly before 11 a.m.

A woman at the crime scene called Stella Houston told reporters that the victims were their nephew and daughter, who celebrated her 5th birthday on Sunday. Friends and family identified the man as a rapper Fort Worth, who is known as Lil Ronnie.

A witness told a CBS News Texas Photo Journalist that they heard 20 to 30 shots.

The police said the suspects are described as two black men who wear blue jeans and gray sweaters. Forest Hill's police said the suspects left a white, four -door Kia and approached the victim's vehicle, which was inpatient in a bay in the car wash. The suspects opened the fire and fled from the area.

A suspect was identified and an arrest warrant against capital murder was issued, the police said; However, the department does not publish suspicious names because the investigation lasts.

The video of CBS News Texas Chopper showed dozens of evidence markings on the ground and a difficult police presence about car wash. The officers of Fort Worth, Everman and Mansfield were also on site for Forest Hill PD.

In a statement published on Monday afternoon, Slappys Autawasch announced that it would be closed for at least two days to support the examination.

“We are shocked, horrified and deeply worried about the senseless and violent events that have occurred today,” the explanation says.

This is the fourth and fifth reported Murder on the Forest Hill this year. Last year there was zero, the police said.

At the end of the last month, a former employee of a car sales business in Forest Hill was charged with murder Shoot in the company This led to two deaths and an injury.

Days later a 36-year-old The mother of Forest Hill was killed by “stray balls” in her back yard. Family members said she was at the fireplace when a stray ball came through the fence and she hit.

The Texas Rangers headed the investigation, said the police from Forest Hill, said with the help of the Forest Hill Criminal Division, the police authority of Fort Worth, the police authority of Overman, the Kennedale Police Department and the Sheriff's Sheriff of Tarrant County.