{"id":196187,"date":"2026-03-09T00:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/196187\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T00:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:58:10","slug":"off-duty-dallas-officer-shoots-at-suspects-allegedly-trying-to-steal-his-vehicle-in-addison-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/196187\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-duty Dallas officer shoots at suspects allegedly trying to steal his vehicle in Addison, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An off-duty Dallas police officer shot at a group of people allegedly trying to steal his personal vehicle on Sunday afternoon in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/addison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Addison<\/a>, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Addison Police Department, around 2:15 p.m., the off-duty Dallas officer saw a group of people trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/car-theft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">steal his vehicle<\/a> in a parking lot at 5000 Belt Line Road. He confronted the suspects, &#8220;and during the encounter, fired a weapon at the suspects&#8217; vehicle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The suspects fled in their vehicle, Addison police said, and it is unknown if any suspects were hit by gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An off-duty Dallas police officer shot at a group of people allegedly trying to steal his personal vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8872,12182,102,104,103,22616],"class_list":["post-196187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-addison","tag-car-theft","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police-officer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196187","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=196187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}