FORT WORTH, Texas – Fort Worth police have arrested a man accused of killing his uncle in a shooting earlier this month.
On Dec. 1, 40-year-old Christopher Sanders Sr. was found shot and killed inside a Dodge Charger parked at an apartment complex in the 6900 block of N. Beach St.
Investigators believe that on the day of the murder, Christopher Sanders and his nephew Derrick Sanders Jr., 19, were riding in a blue Dodge Charger that followed a Chrysler 300 out of an apartment complex near Western Center Boulevard.
While both cars were driving, both Sanders fired at the Chrysler. Derrick Sanders was hanging out of the backseat window shooting.
One of the bullets from Sanders Jr.’s gun hit the roof of the Charger and hit his uncle who was in the front passenger seat.
Fort Worth Police were called to the apartment complex on N. Beach Street at 3:37 p.m. and found Sanders Sr. dead in the front passenger seat of a blue Dodge Charger.
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Investigators say the shooting at the Chrysler was pre-planned. Sanders Sr. was found wearing orange gloves and similar gloves were found near the parked vehicle.
Officers searched the apartment complex. They found a fired cartridge casing near the trunk of the Charger and bloody footprints leading toward an AC unit where they found clothes and a handgun.
Derricks Sanders Jr. talked with detectives on Dec. 5 and told them that he was inside the vehicle when his uncle was shot.
Police say surveillance video shows Sanders Jr. shooting in the direction of where his uncle was sitting.
Sanders Jr. has been charged with one count of felony murder.
