Anthony Aguirre, 55, of Fort Worth, was shot on August 8, 2025, inside the Yellow Rose Saloon on Cherry Lane during an attempted robbery. Witnesses said a man entered through a back door carrying a rifle hidden in a duffel bag, went behind the bar and demanded money. Aguirre, a customer, tried to intervene by lifting a bar stool and was shot by the intruder. He was taken to a hospital and died of his injuries.

Detectives used witness statements and security video from inside the saloon and nearby cameras to reconstruct the sequence of events and the suspect’s path away from the scene. An arrest warrant affidavit reported that the timeline was established to the minute from those recordings. Reporting noted that officers recovered evidence in a backpack linking a person to the attempted robbery and that the suspect had a prior criminal history.

Does anyone have information about that night at the Yellow Rose Saloon or about Anthony Aguirre’s life in Fort Worth?