{"id":386610,"date":"2026-07-25T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386610\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T22:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:14:10","slug":"man-shot-inside-pickup-likely-wasnt-targeted-in-road-rage-attack-near-busy-arlington-shopping-district-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386610\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot inside pickup likely wasn&#8217;t targeted in road rage attack near busy Arlington shopping district, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 54\u2011year\u2011old man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/man-found-dead-after-shots-fired-call-popular-arlington-shopping-district\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fatally shot late Friday<\/a> while inside his pickup likely wasn&#8217;t a victim of road rage, Arlington police said Saturday, clarifying earlier details about where he was found.<\/p>\n<p>The man, whose name will be released by the medical examiner, was discovered unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds just before 8:45 p.m. after officers responded to reports of gunfire at Highlander Boulevard and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His pickup had come to rest in a grassy area at the southwest corner of the intersection, which sits just north of I\u201120, next to one of the city&#8217;s busiest shopping districts. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said Saturday the victim was driving when he was shot.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/arlingtonshooting.png#.png\" alt=\"arlingtonshooting.png \" height=\"390\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Texas<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe the victim was shot prior to the pickup truck going off the roadway,&#8221; said police spokesman Tim Ciesco.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told investigators they saw another driver fire into the pickup, then flee westbound on Highlander Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>Arlington police initially reported the man was found next to the truck, but Ciesco said paramedics had already removed him from the vehicle before officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are pursuing several leads, but no arrests had been made as of late Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Tips can be directed to Det. VanTreeck at 817\u2011459\u20115691 or Crime Stoppers at 817\u2011469\u20118477.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 54\u2011year\u2011old man fatally shot late Friday while inside his pickup likely wasn&#8217;t a victim of road rage,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,430,95,27],"class_list":["post-386610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-north-texas","tag-shooting","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386610","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=386610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}