{"id":405606,"date":"2026-08-13T16:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405606\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:26:14","slug":"fort-worth-ambulance-theft-suspect-killed-by-dps-trooper-after-wild-pursuit-through-austin-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405606\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth ambulance theft suspect killed by DPS trooper after wild pursuit through Austin, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suspect wanted for allegedly stealing an ambulance from Fort Worth was shot and killed by a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper Thursday morning after leading law enforcement on a wild pursuit through Austin, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Worth Fire Department told CBS News Texas that an ambulance was stolen from Station 4 on Wednesday night, located in the 2900 block of Old Mansfield Road. But didn&#8217;t reveal anything further.<\/p>\n<p>During a news conference Thursday morning, DPS confirmed that at about 6:30 a.m. troopers were notified that the stolen ambulance was seen traveling southbound on I-35 in Austin. When troopers attempted a traffic stop, the suspect fled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DPS said during the chase the suspect began &#8220;intentionally ramming multiple civilian vehicles,&#8221; as it traveled down U.S. 290. Troopers then attempted to pit the ambulance but were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>DPS said the ambulance continued to ram vehicles as it traveled onto the upper deck of I-35 in the southbound lanes. That&#8217;s when a DPS trooper fired their service weapon, striking the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, who has not been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Rangers will be the lead agency investigating the officer-involved shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. We&#8217;ll update as more becomes available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect wanted for allegedly stealing an ambulance from Fort Worth was shot and killed by a Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[132,116,124,118,117],"class_list":["post-405606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-austin","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-fire-department","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405606","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=405606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}