DALLAS, Texas \u2014 A man was shot by Dallas police after allegedly refusing to drop his weapon during a confrontation on Presidio Avenue. The incident occurred on January 17, 2026, around 5:15 p.m.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to reports of a man discharging a firearm in the 1200 block of Presidio Avenue. Upon arrival, they encountered a man armed with at least one gun in the street. Despite loud, verbal commands from the officers to drop the weapon, the suspect did not comply, according to a press release from the Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n
The officers fired at the suspect, striking him at least once. They immediately began rendering medical aid until Dallas Fire-Rescue arrived and transported the man to the hospital, where he was reported to be in stable condition. No officers were injured in the incident.<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing and documented under case number 008318-2026, with updates expected in the coming days, stated the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS, Texas \u2014 A man was shot by Dallas police after allegedly refusing to drop his weapon during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,223,430],"class_list":{"0":"post-128667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-north-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128667","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=128667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}