{"id":176763,"date":"2026-02-23T18:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/176763\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T18:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:19:06","slug":"dps-trooper-shot-in-big-spring-flown-to-lubbock-for-treatment-after-an-overnight-officer-involved-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/176763\/","title":{"rendered":"DPS Trooper shot in Big Spring, flown to Lubbock for treatment after an overnight officer-involved shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; On Monday, DPS says a Trooper was shot near Big Spring and flown to Lubbock for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DPS says The Texas Rangers are now investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred just before 1:00 a.m., in the 500 block of Westover near the Westover Hills Apartments in Big Spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say the Trooper attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a vehicle for a traffic violation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The vehicle did not stop, and the Trooper performed a PIT maneuver; however, the vehicle drove into the bushes, and two suspects evaded on foot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the foot pursuit, one of the suspects fired shots, striking the Trooper, and the Trooper returned fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DPS says currently, one suspect is dead, and the other suspect has not been apprehended. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The DPS Trooper sustained a gunshot wound and was transported to a Lubbock area hospital, where they are listed in stable condition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No residents at the West Hills Apartments were injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information regarding the identity of the second suspect is urged to contact the Big Spring Police Department at (432) 264-2550 or the Texas Department of Public Safety at (432) 498-2130. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation is being conducted with the assistance of the Big Spring Police Department and the Howard County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; On Monday, DPS says a Trooper was shot near Big Spring and flown to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[227,71150,11861,33477,168,170,169,2817,2295,95,746],"class_list":{"0":"post-176763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-big","9":"tag-dps-trooper","10":"tag-fatal","11":"tag-involved","12":"tag-lubbock","13":"tag-lubbock-headlines","14":"tag-lubbock-news","15":"tag-officer","16":"tag-overnight","17":"tag-shooting","18":"tag-spring"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176763","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=176763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}