{"id":257193,"date":"2026-04-19T20:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257193\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T20:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:05:16","slug":"dallas-police-officer-shoots-suspect-who-allegedly-punched-him-during-traffic-stop-department-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257193\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas police officer shoots suspect who allegedly punched him during traffic stop, department says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Dallas Police Department said a traffic stop that unfolded early Sunday morning escalated into an officer-involved shooting with a passenger who allegedly assaulted the officer, and that police are looking for the driver who reportedly sped off from the scene. On X, the department shared an initial alert around 3:45 a.m., saying it happened along Mockingbird Lane near Preston Road and the Dallas Country Club. Dallas Police said an officer was handling a traffic stop and an altercation with the suspect preceded the shooting. Both the officer and suspect were identified as men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Police Department said a traffic stop that unfolded early Sunday morning escalated into an officer-involved shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,96722,104,103,4081,91239],"class_list":["post-257193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-country-club","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police-department","tag-mockingbird-lane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257193","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=257193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}