A routine drive on East Berry Street turned deadly for 32-year-old Cody Davontae Scott of Fort Worth on Monday, August 18, 2025. Police say the shooting began after an altercation near a convenience store; officers responding around 2:50–2:55 p.m. found Scott in the driver’s seat with a gunshot wound after his car crashed into a light pole. He was taken to a hospital and died the next day. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner later identified him and noted the shooting and crash sequence along East Berry near Edgewood Terrace.

Detectives focused on a large dually pickup seen alongside Scott’s vehicle. The pickup’s driver, 29-year-old Christopher Jerome Blanton Jr., a Fort Worth recording artist who performs as C’ing Jerome and Mr. Hood Country, was arrested. A front-seat passenger in Blanton’s truck told investigators Scott’s windows were so heavily tinted he could not be seen at the moment of the shooting, a detail that contradicts claims of an immediate visible threat. Blanton told police he felt followed and fired; witnesses and evidence described in the arrest affidavit were said to undercut that account. The charge was upgraded to murder after Scott died.

Family and friends gathered near the scene to grieve and remember Scott as a young father. What additional information do readers have about the afternoon on East Berry Street or about Cody Davontae Scott?