{"id":278834,"date":"2026-05-04T23:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/278834\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T23:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:21:09","slug":"richardson-police-shoot-armed-robbery-suspect-on-belt-line-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/278834\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson police shoot armed robbery suspect on Belt Line Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/050426-sky4-kdfweme003_mpg_00.16.22.52.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">RICHARDSON, Texas &#8211; Richardson police officers shot an armed robbery suspect during a chase that ended in front of a restaurant on Belt Line Road.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">According to the Richardson Police Department, the incident started around 4 p.m. on Monday as police responded to a report of a robbery in progress in the 1400 block of East Belt Line Road.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The responding officers were told that the suspect was armed and had fled the scene on foot. They located an individual who matched the suspect\u2019s description walking in the area.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The officers tried to stop the individual and that\u2019s when the shooting occurred, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Images from SKY 4 showed crime scene tape wrapped around the front of a Dave\u2019s Hot Chicken restaurant, along with part of the street and parking lot.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/050426-sky4-kdfweme003_mpg_00.17.51.34.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The suspect was taken to the hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">No officers were injured.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police have not yet elaborated on the details of the shooting or said whether the suspect pointed a gun at officers. Their investigation is still active.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">There&#8217;s no word yet on the suspect&#8217;s injuries or condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from the Richardson Police Department and SKY 4 helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/richardson\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richardson<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article RICHARDSON, Texas &#8211; Richardson police officers shot an armed robbery suspect during a chase that ended in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1046,581,223,160,162,161,959,216,393],"class_list":["post-278834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dallas-county","tag-news","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-richardson","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278834","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=278834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}