{"id":38104,"date":"2025-11-06T13:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/38104\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T13:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:51:06","slug":"man-accused-of-shooting-east-texas-officer-arrested-dps-blue-alert-discontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/38104\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of shooting East Texas officer arrested; DPS Blue Alert discontinued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A man suspected of non-fatally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/11\/03\/texas-dps-issues-blue-alert-for-suspect-in-east-texas-officer-shooting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shooting a Jacksonville police officer <\/a>was arrested Wednesday night after joining the Texas Most Wanted list, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/person\/6ab8b150-4bfe-3703-117f-b3a3b803945e\/greg-abbott\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/person\/6ab8b150-4bfe-3703-117f-b3a3b803945e\/greg-abbott\/\">Gov. Greg Abbott<\/a> announcing a reward for information leading to his arrest earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Bobby Michael Dennis, 64, was arrested by officers around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday after officers searched a property west of Jacksonville city limits, according to a news release from Jacksonville police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dennis was found in a wooded area near the property. Police said they used the handcuffs of the officer Dennis is accused of shooting to detain him and take him to the Cherokee County jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dennis faces an attempted murder charge after police said he shot a Jacksonville officer on Sunday, then fled. As multiple agencies searched for the man, he was added to the Texas 10 Most Wanted list, and Gov. Abbot announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Abbott mentioned in the reward announcement that Dennis is not only accused of shooting and wounding an officer, but a K9 as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cTexas is a law-and-order state, and the dangerous criminal who attacked a Jacksonville Police Officer and their K-9 will experience the full weight of justice brought against him,\u201d Abbott said in the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The wounded officer was flown to a Tyler hospital and is in stable condition, according to the release. No information has been provided by officials regarding the condition of the K9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dennis also faces charges of obstruction or retaliation and interference with a police service animal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man suspected of non-fatally shooting a Jacksonville police officer was arrested Wednesday night after joining the Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[294,223,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-38104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-crime","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38104","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=38104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}