15-month-old Wynter Thouston and 4-year-old Ivy Pierce are sisters and were killed along with another man when a fight escalated into gunfire outside of Crystal Clean Car Wash in Fort Worth. NBC 5’s Larry Collins has the details.
This weekend, the two children who were killed in a Fourth of July shooting in Fort Worth will be laid to rest.
Two sisters, 15-month-old Wynter Thouston and 4-year-old Ivy Pierce, were fatally shot along with another man when a fight escalated into gunfire outside of Crystal Clean Car Wash on the 7500 block of W. Cleburne Road at about 11:40 p.m.
The girls' visitation will be on Friday at Tree of Life Church in Fort Worth. At 7 p.m., a community balloon release in their memory will also be held at the Tree of Life Church.
The funeral and burial are on Saturday at Mount Calvary Family Life Center in Tyler.
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Fort Worth community leaders said these deaths should be a wake-up call to stop rising gun violence in the community, and they need the help of city leaders.
“It is very disgusting to our community because we have a family that just moved here and have not been here a month. And this happened to them, innocent bystanders,” Cliff Sparks said. “They’ve got to put the guns down. This is ridiculous. This is gun violence. Like I said, we got people working in the community, boots on the ground, but we can't save everybody.”
Fort Worth police arrested 26-year-old Kanard Murphy and charged him with capital murder in connection to the shootings. Six people total were shot during the incident.
