On September 16, 2023, at about 2:45 a.m., Fort Worth police responded after a man covered in blood banged on a neighbor’s door saying his girlfriend had been shot. Officers found 29-year-old Paris Holbert with a gunshot wound at the 500 Flats Apartments on Woodchucker Drive. She was taken to a hospital and died shortly thereafter. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner determined Paris died from a single gunshot to her right breast; the manner of death was listed as undetermined.

Paris’s husband, Robert Holbert, initially told police she had shot herself and said the firearm remained in the apartment, but investigators found inconsistencies. The apartment showed signs of a violent altercation: a Glock handgun with a spent casing on the living room couch, several knives on the floor, a broken candle, and Robert with a laceration later identified as a bullet graze. Robert was arrested on unrelated traffic warrants soon after and was later charged with murder in connection with Paris’s death; a Tarrant County grand jury declined to indict on that charge on March 13, 2024.

Paris is remembered by family as devoted to her two young children, a 7-year-old daughter and a 3-year-old son; relatives set up a GoFundMe to help with funeral costs. If anyone knew Paris or has information about what happened that night, please share what you know.