Two Fort Worth men are dead. Two suspects are in custody. And in both cases, police say, the killers didn’t run — they confessed.
Within days of each other, Fort Worth authorities have been dealing with a pair of grim, unrelated homicide cases that share a striking pattern: missing persons reports, searches that ended in tragedy, and suspects who ultimately admitted to what they’d done. The cases have rattled a city already familiar with violent crime, and they underscore how quickly an ordinary week can turn fatal — sometimes at the hands of someone you know.
A Co-Worker, a Car, and a Body in a Field
Thomas King, 31, never made it home from his shift. The Fort Worth man was last seen wearing his Taco Casa work uniform after clocking out at the fast-food restaurant on the 1100 block of Bridgewood Drive. When he didn’t return Monday, family members grew alarmed. By Tuesday, he’d been reported missing.
It didn’t take investigators long to zero in on a lead. King’s car — the one he’d driven to work that night — turned up at a Quality Inn on Interstate 20 in Arlington. Surveillance footage told the rest of that part of the story: it showed Gregory D. Lewis, 34, arriving in King’s vehicle shortly after King had left the restaurant. Lewis, police say, was King’s co-worker.
Then came Friday. King’s body was found in an open field on Fort Worth’s East Side. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner will formally determine the cause of death, but police aren’t waiting on that to make their case. Lewis, now in custody, has admitted to shooting King and stealing his car. A capital murder charge is forthcoming.
That’s the catch with cases like this — by the time the answers come, they’re almost always too late for the family.
A Woman Reported Missing, a Man Who Said What He Did
Separately — and no less disturbing — Fort Worth police are also investigating the death of Rana Nofal Soluri, 47, whose disappearance was reported by a coworker on June 11, 2025. What investigators say they found at the end of that search is the kind of detail that’s hard to shake.
A Fort Worth man named Dennis William Day has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with Soluri’s disappearance. Police say Day confessed to strangling Soluri back in March — months before anyone had reported her missing — and then dumping her body and other evidence off a bridge near Bowie, Texas.
Think about that timeline. If the confession holds up, Soluri may have been dead for months before anyone knew to look for her. The coworker who finally filed that missing persons report in June may have been the only thing that set the investigation in motion at all.
Day remains in custody. The investigation is ongoing, and authorities have not yet detailed what led them to him or what prompted his admission.
Two Cases, One Unsettling Thread
It’s worth pausing on what these two cases have in common — beyond geography and timing. In both instances, the victims were ordinary people living ordinary lives. King was heading home from a fast-food shift. Soluri was reported missing by someone who noticed she was gone. Neither case involved strangers in a dark alley. Both, allegedly, involved people who were known to the victims in some capacity.
Still, police in Fort Worth haven’t linked the two cases, and there’s no indication they’re connected. What they do share is an outcome that’s become an unfortunate investigative pattern: confessions that close cases but can’t undo the damage already done.
For the families of Thomas King and Rana Nofal Soluri, the answers are in. The hard part — living with them — is just beginning.
