{"id":128343,"date":"2026-01-18T20:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128343\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T20:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:58:11","slug":"dallas-police-shoot-armed-man-after-refusal-to-drop-weapon-on-presidio-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128343\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Police Shoot Armed Man After Refusal to Drop Weapon On Presidio Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man was hospitalized after an officer-involved shooting Saturday evening in West Dallas, according to the Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said officers responded around 5:15 p.m. to a report of a man firing a gun in the 1200 block of Presidio Avenue. When officers arrived, they observed a suspect standing in the street armed with at least one firearm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dpdbeat.com\/2026\/01\/17\/officer-involved-shooting-at-1200-presidio-avenue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:According;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">According<\/a> to police, officers confronted the man and issued loud verbal commands directing him to drop the weapon. The suspect did not comply, and officers fired, striking him at least once.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers immediately began rendering medical aid until Dallas Fire-Rescue arrived and transported the man to a hospital, where he was reported to be in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No officers were injured during the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the investigation remains active. The case is being documented under number 008318-2026, and additional information is expected to be released in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was hospitalized after an officer-involved shooting Saturday evening in West Dallas, according to the Dallas Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,401,46944,4278],"class_list":["post-128343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police","tag-police-lights","tag-west-dallas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128343","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=128343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}