{"id":153039,"date":"2026-02-06T01:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/153039\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T01:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:42:13","slug":"suspect-in-custody-in-shooting-of-loomis-guard-at-north-texas-chase-bank-branch-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/153039\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in custody in shooting of Loomis guard at North Texas Chase Bank branch, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suspect is now in custody after a Loomis<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/chase-bank-police-balch-springs-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"> security guard was shot outside a Chase Bank in Balch Springs on Wednesday<\/a>, officials said Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Balch Springs police were called to the bank on Lake June Road near 635, just outside Dallas, around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Video of the scene from the CBS News Texas Chopper showed two ATMs that appeared to be open, with a Loomis armored van parked nearby. The victim, a Loomis employee, was emptying the ATMs when he was shot, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance footage showed a masked suspect in black fleeing with a dark grey bag. The guard is in critical condition but was alert and responsive en route to the hospital. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Loomis and Chase Bank have referred comment requests to law enforcement. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Balch Springs police said it will not be releasing the suspect&#8217;s identity at this time &#8220;due to the investigation and judicial process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Balch Springs Police Department said it is working in partnership with the FBI, which is assisting and leading the<br \/>investigation. Anyone with information is urged to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/balchspringsloomis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">contact the FBI<\/a>\u00a0or the Balch Springs Police Department.  <\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect is now in custody after a Loomis security guard was shot outside a Chase Bank in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24838,581,430,95,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-153039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-chase-bank","tag-dallas-county","tag-north-texas","tag-shooting","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153039","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=153039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}