{"id":408198,"date":"2026-08-16T14:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408198\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:56:10","slug":"person-shot-killed-by-state-trooper-in-east-texas-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408198\/","title":{"rendered":"Person shot, killed by state trooper in East Texas on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas Department of Public Transportation trooper\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shot and killed<\/a> a person in\u00a0Brownsboro on Saturday while responding to a suicidal person assist call, DPS officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The trooper responded to the 1100 block of Ingram Street at 3:30 p.m. to assist local law enforcement with a suicidal person, according to a news release from DPS.<\/p>\n<p>The person\u00a0was said to have been armed with a firearm and given commands by the trooper to drop\u00a0the weapon. The person did not follow commands and was shot by the trooper when they allegedly\u00a0raised the firearm at the trooper, according to the news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The person was taken to a hospital where they died, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>No one else was injured during the shooting. DPS has not released additional information regarding the shooting or the person&#8217;s identity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brownsboro, in Henderson County, is about 90 miles east of Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas Department of Public Transportation trooper\u00a0shot and killed a person in\u00a0Brownsboro on Saturday while responding to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-408198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408198","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=408198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}