Overview
- Officers responding to the 3700 block of Century Place around 11:43 a.m. Friday for reports of a man propositioning children heard a single gunshot as they arrived.
- Police found a man matching the suspect description with a gunshot wound to the groin, and he was taken to a hospital in stable condition.
- Marckus Renfro was detained at the scene and booked on aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, with Tarrant County Jail records listing a total bond of $50,000.
- Fort Worth police identified the wounded man as the person in the earlier child‑solicitation calls, and they have not confirmed the family’s claim that Renfro fired to protect minors.
- Jail records note Renfro has other pending cases, two additional people were present but not identified as detained, and detectives are still piecing together the sequence of events.