The leaders unite in order to end weapons after a fatal shootout on Fort Worth Rapper and daughter

A coalition of the North Texas Community Guide and others called for an end to the gun violence after the Fort Worth Rapper Lil Ronnie and his 5-year-old daughter fatal shootout Wash cars in a Forest Hill the day before.

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.

Community reacts

During a press conference, the city council of Fort Worth, Chris Nettles, said the problem of gun power not only in a city or in a neighborhood. He emphasized that the community must fight the problem.

“If you know what happened yesterday and you didn't say anything if you were aware that a takedown would take place before the goal, you are not just part of the problem, you are the problem,” said Nettles. “And they need them to be with us to prevent these actions from appearing again.”

Nettles joined the mayor of Forest Hill, Stephanie Boardingham, Melinda Hamilton, the founder of mothers of murdered angels (MOMA). Michael Bell from unity in the community coalition of Tarrant County; and Rodney Mcintosh, program director of VIP Fort Worth, in the demand for a uniform front.

The fourth and fifth reported murders in Forest Hill this year is the double murder on Monday. Last year there was zero, said Boardingham.

“We can't go on,” said Boardingham. “We have to stop burying our children.”

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

Days later was a 36-year-old mother of Forest Hill Killed by stray balls In your garden. Family members said she was at the fireplace when a stray ball came through the fence and she hit.

“Violence has no place in our community,” said Bell.

Bell called the murder on Monday a “hideous act of violence”, which “calls for justice and demands measures”.

“We shouldn't bury 5-year-old children,” said Mcintosh.

Mcintosh, who spoke in the name of the mother, who had lost her daughter at the Forest Hill Car Wash on Monday, said she was broken with broken heart and grief. He said the mother dropped her daughter at the car wash after spending time at a birthday party in Great Wolf Lodge with the family.

“Fort Worth, we have to do better,” said Mcintosh.

Friend remembers

Kedrick Wilson met Fort Worth Rapper for the first time, which he knows about 10 years ago as Chuckie Smith.

“Chuckie was an emerging artist and I was an emerging DJ at the time,” said Wilson.

You have bound your love for rap music.

Wilson, known as Mr. Hit Dat, is a local DJ on K104.5 fm. He showed Smith, known as G $ Lil Ronnie, on his show and became his booking manager.

“He had great music there,” said Wilson. “He had a few hits with other artists. He was recently on tour with Soulja Boy and that was a 40-city tour.”

However, Wilson says that his friend's most important job was to be a father.

“He didn't miss the fathers and donuts,” he said. “He didn't miss where you can go to school and read the kindergarten teachers. It was a nice thing.”

Wilson believes that the attack has been targeted.

“In any case, it's one of the most difficult things in the world,” said Wilson.

Wilson says that gun violence has to stop.

“When I grew up in the city center, they see a lot of death,” said Wilson. “It's shit to say it, but it's normal.”

Wilson said that future tragedies can hopefully be prevented.

What happened?

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

The video of CBS News Texas Chopper showed dozens of evidence markings on the ground and a difficult police presence about car wash.

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.