{"id":306703,"date":"2026-05-24T05:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T05:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306703\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T05:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T05:21:10","slug":"man-charged-with-unlawful-possession-of-a-firearm-after-shooting-at-grand-prairie-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/306703\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Charged With Unlawful Possession of a Firearm After Shooting at Grand Prairie Police"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man who shot at Grand Prairie Police Department officers during a domestic violence investigation earlier this month was just charged for unlawful possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced the charge in a Thursday press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the release, Malik Williams was a previously convicted felon. He now faces a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n

The complaint alleges that on May 2, Grand Prairie police officers responded to a domestic disturbance call after a child said things had gotten “physical” between their mom and her boyfriend.<\/p>\n

Officers encountered Williams sitting in a silver Nissan Altima and the child’s mother wearing a blood-stained shirt. As such, officers told Williams he was not free to leave.<\/p>\n

Williams allegedly ignored that directive, sped off in the Altima, and led officers on a pursuit. Eventually, a GPPD officer executed a Precision Immobilization Technique (PIT) maneuver to stop Williams’ car.<\/p>\n

According to the complaint, Williams then shot at the officer with an AR-15 as he got out of his patrol vehicle. A second officer then returned fire on Williams, who was taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n

That’s when investigators learned that Williams was on parole for six prior felonies, including five involving domestic violence against the same victim from this case. <\/p>\n

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas Field Office, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and GPPD conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Walt Junker is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who shot at Grand Prairie Police Department officers during a domestic violence investigation earlier this month…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-306703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306703","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=306703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}