{"id":124295,"date":"2026-01-15T13:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124295\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:30:31","slug":"dallas-shooting-driver-shot-on-i-45-freeway-during-rush-hour-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124295\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas shooting: Driver shot on I-45 freeway during rush hour traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768483831_223_f2706348-police-tape-police-lights.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; Police are investigating a shooting that left a driver hospitalized during the Wednesday evening commute in southern Dallas.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Dallas police responded to a shooting call shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday along the northbound lanes of Julius Schepps Freeway (I-45) near East Overton Road.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Upon arrival, officers discovered a driver had been shot while traveling on the freeway. The victim was transported to a local hospital by Dallas Fire-Rescue. As of Wednesday night, the victim&#8217;s identity and current condition have not been released.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The incident caused significant delays during rush hour as investigators worked the scene. No arrests have been made, and police have not yet released a description of any suspect or vehicle involved.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Details surrounding the motive remain unclear. It is also unconfirmed if the shots were fired from another moving vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">This is a developing story. FOX 4 will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from Dallas police.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS &#8211; Police are investigating a shooting that left a driver hospitalized during the Wednesday evening commute&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,102,581,104,103,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-124295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-county","11":"tag-dallas-headlines","12":"tag-dallas-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}