Brian James Pringle, a 30-year-old White/Caucasian man associated with Euless, Texas, was shot and killed during the early morning hours of November 17, 2022, in east Fort Worth. The violence unfolded in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the 3700 block of Paradise Hills Drive. Investigators later determined that Pringle had been involved in an argument at approximately 1:30 a.m. and that gunfire erupted during or immediately after the confrontation.
The person responsible for the shooting left the area before police arrived.
For several hours, Pringle apparently remained outside at the complex. At about 8:30 that morning, someone called 911 after seeing a man lying on the ground and told dispatchers that the person appeared to be dead. Fort Worth police officers responded and found Pringle suffering from apparent gunshot wounds to his upper body. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Subsequent reporting described him as having suffered several gunshot wounds. Homicide detectives began investigating the circumstances of the overnight argument and worked to identify the person who had fled following the shooting.
The investigation produced an arrest within days. On November 21, 2022, Fort Worth authorities arrested 23-year-old Kendarrius Patterson in connection with Pringle's killing. Patterson was booked into the Fort Worth Jail shortly before 7 p.m. and faced a murder charge. Police publicly linked Patterson to the fatal shooting but did not release extensive details about what caused the argument, the relationship between Patterson and Pringle, or the evidence detectives used to identify Patterson as the suspect.
The shooting became another homicide investigation for Fort Worth during 2022, occurring less than two weeks after a separate fatal shooting had been reported in the same block of Paradise Hills Drive. In Pringle's case, however, investigators were able to move from an unidentified fleeing shooter to a named murder suspect and an arrest in only four days. Public reporting located for the case confirms Patterson's arrest and murder charge, but no reliable subsequent online reporting located establishes a later trial verdict, conviction, acquittal, plea agreement, dismissal, or sentence.
