Police in Fort Worth fatally shot a man Saturday morning in the 4200 block of Wiman Drive after residents called 911 to report shots fired during another late-night block party. Minutes later, Carolyn Green was standing in her front yard, staring at a body in the grass and a microwave that had been struck by a stray bullet.

“I saw this guy in my front yard, laying there in the grass, and I picked up my phone to call the police, not realizing they were across the street, they were the ones that were involved in the shooting,” Green said. “It’s unreal.”

Police Chief Eddie Garcia said officers confronted an armed man when they arrived about midnight on Saturday. Garcia said they ordered the man to drop his gun, but he pointed it toward officers and at least one officer fired, killing him on Green’s lawn. Green said the bullet that hit her microwave did not make it any farther into her home because the appliance stopped it.

The shooting was the latest violent turn in a neighborhood Green says has been worn down by repeated block parties, noise and gunfire. She said dozens of events had drawn crowds of hundreds to the next street over in recent months, usually advertised on social media, and cars often jammed the road outside her home. She said the parties left trash in yards, including beer cans and used sanitary products, while loud music and random gunfire made sleep impossible.

Green said she had called police about the gatherings at least four or five times before Saturday, hoping to get the disruption under control. “It’s got to stop,” she said. “I’m not going to let that trash run me out of my house. I’ve been here too long.”

The deadly encounter came after a similar stretch of violence in the same area in 2024, when two people were killed at a Fourth of July block party near Castleman Street and Wiman Drive. That shooting did not involve police, but officers were called in to help clear a crowd of 200 to 300 people, and residents said they did not disperse the gathering before fireworks were later fired at homes on the street.

What happened on Saturday was different in one crucial way: police became the force that ended the night. For Green and her neighbors, though, the pattern was the same — a party growing out of control, a neighborhood already on edge, and gunfire landing too close to home.