{"id":149356,"date":"2026-02-03T18:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149356\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:04:10","slug":"dallas-shooting-woman-charged-with-murder-after-fatal-shooting-in-red-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149356\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas shooting: Woman charged with murder after fatal shooting in Red Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/shanika-battle-mug.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; A 49-year-old woman is behind bars, charged with murder after a shooting in the Red Bird area of Dallas left another woman dead Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Dallas police responded to a shooting call in the 800 block of Green Cove Lane just before 4 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Officers arrived to find 28-year-old Tabatha Jones suffering from a gunshot wound. She was transported to a local hospital, where she later died from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Police identified the suspect as Shanika Battle, 49. Battle was arrested at the scene and booked into the Dallas County Jail on a murder charge. Investigators say that while the two women were known to each other, the nature of their relationship remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Detectives are still working to determine the motive behind the shooting. Police have not yet released details on what led up to the gunfire.<\/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\/red-bird\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bird<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS &#8211; A 49-year-old woman is behind bars, charged with murder after a shooting in the Red&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,102,581,104,103,223,36516,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-149356","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-red-bird","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149356","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=149356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}