{"id":398471,"date":"2026-08-05T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398471\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:50:08","slug":"person-dies-after-being-found-in-lake-following-west-dallas-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398471\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies after being found in lake following West Dallas shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/aclk?sa=L&amp;pf=1&amp;ai=DChsSEwj2npeV44mWAxVCOtQBHdqbHmUYACICCAEQABoCb2E&amp;co=1&amp;ase=2&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwvsvTBhBaEiwAmf-3npTptv_JaKNUMb_o6AVJ_D7UNW3--QFLwH5hygH_RxXBO7IVAhZ5OhoCWW0QAvD_BwE&amp;cid=CAASWeRo5mANqeMeiLJs9jD10uzPMQXFqNWRv2zAHqKHtpsOUcUNAjFAd84GWVwtZoK5nssAW3DE2McGgJOkCa-Mp5cNylrKsQNN292fSM6_pfyC9-J2qj3McPJg&amp;cce=2&amp;category=acrcp_v1_32&amp;sig=AOD64_0hZvVkGR5BkLKkj-1MkRDtoCixJg&amp;q&amp;nis=4&amp;adurl=https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/dallas-police\/?utm_source%3Dpaid_marketing%26utm_medium%3Dgoogle%26utm_campaign%3Dcontent_acquisition%26gad_source%3D1%26gad_campaignid%3D23423742462%26gbraid%3D0AAAAADjVYgHsE7-TDVZeLuiFJ0_0ZXD79%26gclid%3DCjwKCAjwvsvTBhBaEiwAmf-3npTptv_JaKNUMb_o6AVJ_D7UNW3--QFLwH5hygH_RxXBO7IVAhZ5OhoCWW0QAvD_BwE&amp;ved=2ahUKEwihzI6V44mWAxU2kyYFHc1yFDAQ0Qx6BAgXEAE\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas police<\/a> are investigating after a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/homicide\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shooting<\/a> Tuesday night in West Dallas led to a person being found submerged inside a vehicle in a nearby lake.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to reports of a shooting\u00a0shortly before 11:30 p.m. in the 2200 block of Singleton Boulevard,\u00a0Erika Brown, a Dallas police spokeswoman, said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined a person, who wasn&#8217;t publicly identified, was shot by an unknown suspect who fled the scene, Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>The person who was shot drove away before crashing into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/water\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fish Trap Lake<\/a> at the intersection of Singleton Boulevard and Fish Trap Road.\u00a0Dallas Fire-Rescue officials responded to the lake, where the person died, Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>Brown didn&#8217;t publicly say what led the person to crash into the lake. \u00a0It remains unclear whether the person died from a gunshot wound, the crash or a combination of both.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday morning, no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>Police urge anyone with information on the shooting to contact detective Daisy Mendoza at 214-671-4191 or daisy.mendoza@dallaspolice.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas police are investigating after a\u00a0shooting Tuesday night in West Dallas led to a person being found submerged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1638,102,104,103,88032,117009,89138,89139,95040],"class_list":["post-398471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-brief","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas-fortworth","tag-tp-water","tag-tp-dallas-county","tag-tp-dallas-police","tag-tp-west-dallas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398471","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=398471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}