Joe DeLane

Tammye Nash | Managing Editor
nash@dallasvoice.com
A Fort Worth man died Monday evening following an altercation last weekend at a bar on South Jennings Street. Officer Daniel Segura with the Fort Worth Police Department’s Public Information Office said investigators in the department’s homicide division “will be looking at the case.”
Joe DeLane, 51, died shortly after 6 p.m. Monday at JPS Hospital in Fort Worth, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s website. Cause and manner of death were listed as pending as of press time on Thursday, April 19.
Segura said police were called to the 515 Bar, located at 515 S. Jennings St., shortly after midnight on Saturday, April 14.
He said that according to the report filed by responding officers, DeLane entered 515 Bar after having left another bar, and that the bartender on duty asked DeLane to leave 515 Bar after he began causing a disturbance.
Segura said that according to the police report, DeLane punched the bartender, and the bartender responded by pushing DeLane. At that point, according to the report, DeLane fell backwards and was knocked unconscious as he hit the ground.
DeLane was transported by ambulance to JPS Hospital.
Police reports identified the bartender only by his last name, Cantu.
Friends of DeLane are questioning that version of events, saying that DeLane was not a violent or aggressive person. In posts on social media, they have described him as a friendly person who loved to dance and who was an avid supporter of the Imperial Court de Fort Worth/Arlington and other charitable organizations and efforts