{"id":164899,"date":"2026-02-14T19:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/164899\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T19:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:17:22","slug":"21-year-old-man-fatally-shot-in-south-dallas-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/164899\/","title":{"rendered":"21-year-old man fatally shot in South Dallas, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A 21-year-old man was killed, and another man was hospitalized, following a shooting late Friday night in South Dallas, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officers responded about 10:47 p.m. to a shooting call in the 4600 block of Elsie Faye Heggins Street, the Dallas Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A preliminary investigation determined that two men had been shot at the location. Dallas Fire-Rescue personnel responded, then pronounced 21-year-old Jackie Jernigan dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The second man was transported to a hospital by private vehicle. His condition was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>Crime in The News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Read the crime and public safety news your neighbors are talking about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police said the motive and circumstances surrounding the shooting remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Detective A. Thayer at 214-671-3657 or by email at adam.thayer@dallaspolice.gov.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2026\/02\/14\/a-fort-worth-woman-was-fatally-stabbed-adult-son-taken-into-cutody\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Fort Worth woman was fatally stabbed; adult son taken into custody<\/a><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2026\/02\/13\/man-27-arrested-in-connection-with-death-of-woman-in-fort-worth-officials-say\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man, 27, arrested in connection with death of woman in Fort Worth, officials say<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 21-year-old man was killed, and another man was hospitalized, following a shooting late Friday night in South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[294,102,104,103,27],"class_list":["post-164899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164899","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=164899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}