According to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, the suspect was shot by officers after he reportedly pulled out a gun. He was taken to a local hospital.<\/p>\n
JOHNSON COUNTY, Texas \u2014 After leading police on a chase that ended in a crash, officials say North Texas deputies shot a suspect with a gun Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
According to the Johnson County Sheriff’s office, Johnson County deputies were called to be on the look out for a suspect, Joseph Boy, who reportedly had multiple outstanding warrants for his arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Boy had reportedly made threats he would get into a shootout with police rather than go back to prison, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers found Boy and tried to stop his vehicle, but Boy fled, leading them on a chase, according to police. Johnson County deputies helped with the pursuit.<\/p>\n
Deputies reportedly used a precision immobilization technique to end the chase, officials said, causing Boy to crash. While attempting to arrest Boy, he reportedly pulled out a gun. Officers then shot Boy.<\/p>\n
The suspect was taken to a local hospital for treatment, officials said. His condition isn’t known as of Saturday evening. No officers were hurt during the incident.<\/p>\n
The investigation is being turned over to the Texas Rangers, JCSO said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, the suspect was shot by officers after he reportedly pulled out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-296641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296641","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=296641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}