{"id":281748,"date":"2026-05-06T20:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/281748\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T20:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:28:11","slug":"lubbock-county-texas-chase-turns-deadly-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/281748\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock County, Texas, chase turns deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778099291_369_texas-dps-vehicle.jpg\" alt=\"A Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol cruiser is seen on Oct. 21, 2025.\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">A Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol cruiser is seen on Oct. 21, 2025.\u00a0 (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">LUBBOCK, Texas &#8211; A high-speed chase that started in Lubbock County turned deadly Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox4news.com\/news\/lubbock-texas-high-speed-chase-may-5-2026\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The chase started about 11:35 p.m. after a Lubbock police officer tried to stop a vehicle for a traffic violation, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The chase accelerated into Lubbock County on U.S. Highway 62\/82 where troopers joined the pursuit, officials said. During the chase, the driver fired several shots at officers.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Troopers said they performed a maneuver to stop the vehicle just west of Meadow in Terry County. The driver\u2019s vehicle spun into the median and flipped, killing the driver.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">No officers were injured, troopers said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"fox4news.com\/news\/lubbock-texas-high-speed-chase-may-5-2026\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The identity of the driver was not released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story came from the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.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 A Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol cruiser is seen on Oct. 21, 2025.\u00a0 (Getty Images)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1046,168,170,169,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-281748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281748","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=281748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}