{"id":127696,"date":"2026-01-18T04:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/127696\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T04:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:12:08","slug":"man-wounded-by-dallas-officers-after-refusing-commands-to-drop-gun-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/127696\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wounded by Dallas officers after refusing commands to drop gun, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas-police-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Dallas police<\/a> shot and wounded a man Saturday evening after officers were called to a report of gunfire in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">South Dallas<\/a> neighborhood, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Maj. Anthony Greer said officers were sent to the 1200 block of Presidio Avenue around 5:15 p.m. after a 911 caller reported a man firing a weapon outside. When officers arrived, they found the man standing in the street with at least one gun.<\/p>\n<p>Commands given before shots fired, police say<\/p>\n<p>Greer said officers ordered him several times to drop the weapon. The man refused, and officers opened fire, hitting him at least once.<\/p>\n<p>After the shooting, officers provided medical aid until Dallas Fire-Rescue arrived and took the man to a hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. No officers were hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Greer said several officers responded and established a large crime scene. Detectives are still working to determine why the man was outside with a gun, and the investigation remains ongoing. More information is expected in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information is provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas police shot and wounded a man Saturday evening after officers were called to a report of gunfire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,430,27],"class_list":["post-127696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-north-texas","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127696","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=127696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}