{"id":382095,"date":"2026-07-22T07:39:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382095\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T07:39:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:39:50","slug":"dallas-co-sheriffs-office-investigates-birthday-party-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382095\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Co. Sheriff&#8217;s Office investigates birthday party shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted: Jul 20, 2026 7:03 PM CDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-meta post-author\">\n            by<br \/>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waka.com\/bios\/george-mcdonald\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George McDonald<\/a>        <\/p>\n<p>From the West Alabama Newsroom\u2013<\/p>\n<p>A shooting Saturday night in Dallas County leaves one man behind bars \u2014 and another man in the hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waka.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c\/r\/waka-dcshooting0720-vo.jpg\" data-lb-width=\"1920\" data-lb-height=\"1080\" class=\" photoswipe gtxlightbox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3770871 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/waka-dcshooting0720-vo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Waka Dcshooting0720 Vo\" width=\"430\" height=\"242\"  \/><\/a>Sheriff Mike Granthum says 50 year old Kevin Leon Coleman opened fire at his birthday party at one of the guests.<\/p>\n<p>Granthum says the shooting happened after Coleman became angry \u2014 about 51 year old Tommy Lee Geter \u2014 teaching his wife how to do a line dance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWitnesses said a verbal altercation broke out and he wasn\u2019t happy with the way he was teaching his wife how to dance. Supposedly he went back inside, grabbed his weapon, fired a single shot, struck the subject in the chest,\u201d said Granthum.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman is facing gun and drug charges \u2014 in addition to attempted murder.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted: Jul 20, 2026 7:03 PM CDT by George McDonald From the West Alabama Newsroom\u2013 A shooting Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-382095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382095","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=382095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}