{"id":398366,"date":"2026-08-05T14:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398366\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:26:10","slug":"suspect-shot-pickup-truck-driver-in-dallas-causing-vehicle-to-run-into-lake-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398366\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect shot pickup truck driver in Dallas, causing vehicle to run into lake, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway after <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dallas Police<\/a>\u00a0say someone fatally <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">shot<\/a>\u00a0a driver in a pickup truck, causing the truck to careen into a small west Dallas lake late Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Officers at the scene provided initial information to CBS News Texas. Police said it happened around 11:30 p.m. along Singleton Boulevard near Fish Trap Road, right in front of Fish Trap Lake. Officers said two people reportedly met at a nearby shopping center, but the suspect at some point exited the truck and shot the victim at point-blank range. Officers said that caused the victim, who was still inside the truck, to press on the gas and drive into the lake.<\/p>\n<p>While fire crews tried to save the victim, Dallas Police said the victim passed away. As of publication, the victim has not been publicly identified.<\/p>\n<p>Police also said they don&#8217;t have further details about a suspect as of publication. What preceded the shooting also remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after Dallas Police\u00a0say someone fatally shot\u00a0a driver in a pickup truck, causing the truck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[294,102,104,103,4081,95],"class_list":["post-398366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police-department","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398366","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=398366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}