A 15-year-old boy was talking to his girlfriend on the phone in his bedroom when bullets ripped through the walls of his Fort Worth home. He never got to finish that conversation.
Prince Washington, a sophomore at South Hills High School and a dedicated basketball player, was shot in the chest on the evening of April 2, 2026, when gunfire erupted from a red Honda driving past his family’s home in the 6700 block of Glenbrook Lane. He was 15 years old. Fort Worth police have now made three arrests in connection with his death, closing in on the suspects behind what investigators are calling a deliberate drive-by shooting.
Three Suspects, One Senseless Night
Police identified the three suspects as Kamron Dominic Lampkin, 19, Cesar Andres Horton, 20, and a 17-year-old named Todaireyun Que’Mar Clark. All three face charges in connection with Washington’s murder. The arrests came after investigators pieced together evidence from the scene and witness accounts pointing to the red Honda that had passed the Glenbrook Lane residence that night.
It’s the kind of case that doesn’t get easier with time — for investigators, for the neighborhood, or for the family left behind. Washington wasn’t caught in the crossfire of some distant street corner confrontation. He was home. On the phone with his girlfriend. In his own bedroom.
“He Was a Great Kid”
His father didn’t mince words when he spoke to reporters after the initial arrests. Washington’s father said his son “was a great kid. He loved the Lord, and he did what’s right.” That quote, brief as it is, carries the full weight of a parent trying to make sense of something that simply doesn’t make sense. There’s nothing to explain away here. No complicated backstory. A teenager did his homework, played basketball, called his girlfriend — and then he was gone.
Classmates and community members in Fort Worth have mourned Washington’s death publicly, with South Hills High School becoming a focal point of grief in the days that followed the shooting. He was, by every account, the kind of student-athlete that schools hold up as an example — not yet old enough to drive, but old enough to have a reputation for doing the right thing.
A City Grappling With Youth Violence
How many more times does this have to happen? Fort Worth has faced a string of violent incidents involving teenagers in recent months, and Washington’s death is the kind that forces a community to stop and reckon with itself. The Fort Worth Police Department, responding to a separate but similarly sobering incident involving a 16-year-old killed in an accidental shooting at an apartment on South Hulen Street, acknowledged the broader toll, stating: “The Fort Worth Police Department recognizes the profound effect this tragic incident has on the victim’s family and the community.”
That statement, issued in a different case, could just as easily apply here. It almost always could. Still, words of recognition only go so far when families are burying teenagers who had no business being in the ground.
The Washington case isn’t an isolated data point. Investigators and community leaders are increasingly confronting a pattern — young men, cars, and guns converging on residential streets with deadly results. In a separate Fort Worth-area case, two 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old were charged with murder and aggravated assault in a teen shooting — different facts, different block, same grim category of crime.
What Comes Next
Lampkin and Horton’s arrests were confirmed by local authorities, with Clark’s arrest rounding out the trio of suspects now in custody. The cases against all three are expected to move through the Tarrant County court system in the coming months. Given the nature of the charges — capital murder in a drive-by shooting that claimed the life of a minor — prosecutors are likely to pursue the cases aggressively.
That’s the legal reality. The human reality is something different altogether. Three young men, the oldest just 20, allegedly drove past a house and opened fire. A 15-year-old who loved basketball and the Lord took a bullet to the chest while talking to his girlfriend. And a father is left to tell the world that his son did what’s right — as if that should have been enough to keep him safe. It should have been.
Prince Washington deserved to finish that phone call.
