{"id":256959,"date":"2026-04-19T15:25:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256959\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:25:21","slug":"man-shot-dallas-police-officer-injured-during-traffic-stop-near-highland-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256959\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot, Dallas police officer injured during traffic stop near Highland Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A traffic stop near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/highland-park\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Highland Park;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Highland Park&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Highland Park<\/a> early Sunday ended with a man shot and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/dallas-police\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dallas police;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Dallas police&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Dallas police<\/a> officer injured, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident is being investigated by Dallas police as an officer-involved shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An officer pulled a vehicle over in the 4100 block of Mockingbird Lane at 2:16 a.m. after the vehicle was seen driving without its headlights on, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the traffic stop, a male passenger in the vehicle got out and approached the officer&#8217;s car, police said. The officer got out of their vehicle as well. The man got closer to the officer and hit the officer in the face, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The officer pulled out his weapon, fired two rounds, and shot the man at least once, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Both the officer and the man were taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the driver of the vehicle that was pulled over left the scene during the altercation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information on conditions and charges was not immediately provided by police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A traffic stop near Highland Park early Sunday ended with a man shot and a Dallas police officer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,401,91239],"class_list":["post-256959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police","tag-mockingbird-lane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256959","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=256959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}