{"id":399638,"date":"2026-08-06T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/399638\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T21:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:30:09","slug":"dpd-officer-fires-gun-after-north-dallas-vehicle-pursuit-no-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/399638\/","title":{"rendered":"DPD officer fires gun after North Dallas vehicle pursuit; no injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/dallas-police\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas police<\/a> officer fired their gun during a traffic stop Thursday involving an armed robbery suspect after a vehicle pursuit from Oak Cliff to North Dallas, police say. No one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded around 9:20 a.m. to a reported robbery in the 3500 block of Sunnyvale Street in Oak Cliff, where an armed suspect stole a vehicle, Dallas Police Executive Assistant Chief Terrence Rhodes said during a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Officers followed the suspected stolen vehicle north and the driver pulled over in the 5800 block of\u00a0Williamstown Road in the Melshire Estates neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>As the driver got out of the vehicle, one officer fired their gun, Rhodes said. The suspect wasn&#8217;t hit and was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing, Rhodes said.<\/p>\n<p>Police didn&#8217;t immediately identify the suspect or say what charges the person could face. Sean Pease, president of the Dallas Police Association, declined to comment after the news conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police cars lined\u00a0Williamstown Road for several hours as investigators processed the scene. Yellow crime scene tape surrounded a property several houses from the intersection of\u00a0Williamstown and Jamestown roads, where dozens of officers gathered.<\/p>\n<p>Blake Frieden was working in his home office when he heard what sounded like a \u201cpop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of minor accidents at this intersection,\u201d Frieden said. \u201cIn retrospect, what I heard was probably a gunshot, and that\u2019s why there was so much traffic noise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Dallas police crime scene investigation van arrived around noon. Shortly after 1:30 p.m., a tow truck removed what appeared to be the suspected stolen vehicle as officers took down the crime scene tape.<\/p>\n<p>By 1:45 p.m., police had cleared the scene, leaving a handful of neighbors talking amongst themselves on the street.<\/p>\n<p>This was one of two officer-involved shootings on Thursday in Dallas. An officer with the Dallas Independent School District was\u00a0shot and wounded outside a northwest Dallas Sam&#8217;s Club during an unrelated shooting an hour and a half later\u00a0 \u2014 less than three miles away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Staff writers Everton Bailey Jr. and\u00a0Chase Rogers contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dallas police officer fired their gun during a traffic stop Thursday involving an armed robbery suspect after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[294,102,104,103,87998,89139],"class_list":["post-399638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-dallas-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399638","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=399638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}