Anthony Aguirre, a 55-year-old male from Fort Worth, died on August 8, 2025, after he was shot inside the Yellow Rose Saloon during an attempted robbery in west Fort Worth. Police were called to the bar on Cherry Lane in the early-morning hours, where witnesses said a gunman entered through a back door carrying a rifle concealed in a duffel bag, went behind the bar, and demanded money.
When a customer—identified by authorities as 55-year-old Anthony Aguirre—tried to intervene by lifting a bar stool to stop the robbery, the intruder opened fire. Aguirre was rushed to a hospital, where he died of his injuries.
Detectives pieced together what happened from witness statements and security video that captured the suspect's movements in and around the bar. The investigation centered on how the rifle was brought in and the sequence in which the gunman confronted the staff and patrons before fleeing on foot after the shooting. An arrest warrant affidavit referenced by local outlets indicated that the timeline was established to the minute from cameras in the area and from those inside the saloon, helping investigators confirm the suspect's identity and path away from the scene.
Within days, Fort Worth police arrested 40-year-old Dain Graham and charged him with capital murder in connection with the killing. Authorities said Graham was taken into custody and booked into the Tarrant County Corrections Center, where his bond was set at $750,000. Reporting on the arrest also noted that detectives recovered evidence in a backpack linking him to the attempted robbery and that he had a prior criminal history; at the time of the shooting he was reportedly out on bond in an unrelated case.
Public records and memorial pages identified the victim as Anthony Aguirre, 55, of Fort Worth, and listed the date of death as August 8, 2025. Independent incident trackers logged the location as the Yellow Rose Saloon on Cherry Lane, corroborating the time and place described by police. Together, those accounts underscore that the 55-year-old man died while trying to protect others in a bar he'd only meant to visit, turning an ordinary late-night scene into a fatal struggle that now moves through the courts with a named suspect facing a capital murder charge.
