{"id":296761,"date":"2026-05-17T03:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296761\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T03:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T03:48:10","slug":"north-texas-police-shoot-suspect-after-chase-ends-with-crash-johnson-county-officials-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/296761\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas police shoot suspect after chase ends with crash, Johnson County officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the Johnson County Sheriff&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Boy had reportedly made threats he would get into a shootout with police rather than go back to prison, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect was taken to a local hospital for treatment, officials said. His condition isn&#8217;t known as of Saturday evening. No officers were hurt during the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation is being turned over to the Texas Rangers, JCSO said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After leading police on a chase that ended in a crash, officials say North Texas deputies shot a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12036,438,108055,108056,430,27,6877,29,28],"class_list":["post-296761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-chase","tag-johnson-county","tag-johnson-county-sheriff39s-office","tag-joseph-boy","tag-north-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-department-of-public-safety","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296761","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=296761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}