{"id":196125,"date":"2026-03-08T23:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/196125\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T23:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:05:07","slug":"off-duty-dallas-officer-fires-at-suspects-trying-to-steal-his-vehicle-in-addison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/196125\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-duty Dallas officer fires at suspects trying to steal his vehicle in Addison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773011107_632_police-lights_-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">ADDISON, Texas &#8211; Addison police are investigating a shooting involving an off-duty Dallas police officer who fired at suspects attempting to steal his personal vehicle Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>   Off-duty Dallas officer involved in shooting <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">It happened at 2:15 p.m. in a parking lot at 5000 Belt Line Road, according to the Addison Police Department.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The off-duty Dallas officer observed a group of suspects attempting to steal his vehicle and confronted them, police said. During the encounter, the officer fired his weapon at the suspects&#8217; vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The suspects\u2019 vehicle left the scene immediately following the shooting. Authorities said it remains unknown if any of the suspects were struck by gunfire.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Addison police detectives are leading the investigation. Officials stated there is no further danger to the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Addison Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/addison\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Addison<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article ADDISON, Texas &#8211; Addison police are investigating a shooting involving an off-duty Dallas police officer who fired&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8872,1046,102,581,104,103,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-196125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-addison","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-county","12":"tag-dallas-headlines","13":"tag-dallas-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196125","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=196125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}