On April 5, 2026, 16-year-old Jaydon Jones was shot and killed inside an apartment at The Nolan on South Hulen Street in southwest Fort Worth. Jaydon, a Southwest High School student who had played basketball since age five and with a youth team at the Fort Worth YMCA, was visiting a friend when a pistol discharged and struck him in the chest. Emergency services arrived about 5:15 p.m., and Jaydon was pronounced dead inside the apartment.

The friend, also 16, was handling the firearm when it fired; he was detained, arrested and charged with manslaughter and ordered held in the county juvenile detention center. During a detention hearing, a judge heard that the two teenagers had been playing with the gun all day before the fatal shot. Jaydon’s parents are Jessica Taylor and Marcus Jones. His family described their loss as devastating, and the death has renewed local concern about youth access to firearms.

Did anyone at The Nolan or the surrounding neighborhood see the teens that day or have information about where the firearm came from?