Logan Thomas Cantrell, 18, male, was killed in Fort Worth during the early morning hours of Sunday, July 20, 2025, amid violence tied to a crowded house party in the city’s south side. Police were called around 2:30 a.m. to the 7100 block of Avington Way, where officers first encountered a gunshot victim being carried toward the street; that teen, later identified by the medical examiner as 19-year-old Emiliano Serna, was pronounced dead at the scene.
A short distance away, officers found Cantrell inside a vehicle with a gunshot wound in the neck/throat area; he, too, was pronounced dead where he was found. Authorities said the party had been advertised and had drawn a large crowd before a confrontation escalated into gunfire.
Detectives described two closely linked scenes in the same neighborhood: the first at the home where a fight preceded the initial shooting, and the second along a nearby street where Cantrell’s vehicle came to a stop. Investigators said the same altercation that led to Serna’s death likely precipitated the subsequent shooting that took Cantrell’s life, though the exact sequence and motive remained under active review. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner publicly identified the victims as Serna and Cantrell and confirmed their ages.
As the investigation unfolded, Fort Worth police said the suspected gunman fled on foot from the party and remained at large in the immediate aftermath. Local outlets reported that no arrests had been announced while detectives canvassed witnesses and processed the two scenes for evidence. Officials urged anyone with information to contact police as they pieced together how the confrontation at the party spread into the surrounding streets and ended with two teens dead.
Cantrell’s death left family and friends mourning a young life cut short. In the days that followed, obituaries and memorial pages recorded his name and age and situated his death in Fort Worth, while remembrances gathered from his community underscored the senselessness of the violence that unfolded that night. Some remembrances listed his date of death as July 21, 2025, reflecting publication timing after the Sunday shootings; contemporaneous incident reporting and victim lists tied to the Fort Worth shootings placed his death on July 20, 2025.
