{"id":409059,"date":"2026-08-17T18:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409059\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:08:09","slug":"off-duty-arlington-officer-shot-sunday-morning-man-charged-with-aggravated-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409059\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-duty Arlington officer shot Sunday morning, man charged with aggravated assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/oakcliff.advocatemag.com\/2022\/05\/jefferson-shooting-eric-montes\/police-car-getty\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69012 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69012\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764193627_769_Police-Car-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"A police car with flashing lights at night.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1245\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-69012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Dallas police responded to an early morning shooting call on Sunday, Aug. 16.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 3:50 a.m., officers responded to a shooting call in the 3100 block of South Westmoreland Road<a href=\"https:\/\/dpdbeat.com\/2026\/08\/16\/off-duty-arlington-officer-involved-shooting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">, according to DPD Beat.<\/a> From the preliminary investigation, it was determined that an off-duty Arlington officer was shot by 33-year-old Darriyous Johunkin.<\/p>\n<p>Johunkin was arrested on scene and transported to Lew Sterrett Jail, according to police. He is being charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p>The facts and circumstances surrounding the incident are currently being investigated, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tShare This Story, Choose Your Platform!<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786990089_47_4b7788cb0990e4978f03f293513e201327c04def34eb630c23899a78f7ca98bf.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-72 photo\" height=\"72\" width=\"72\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVictoria Hernandez is the Oak Cliff editor for Advocate Media. Prior to joining the Advocate, she wrote for Walton Insights, KUAF 91.3 and UARK Student Media. Victoria studied at the University of Arkansas, earning a B.A. in English\/Journalism with minors in history and gender studies and a M.A. in Journalism with a Graduate Certificate in African and African American Studies. She can be reached by email at vhernandez@advocatemag.com\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by Getty Images Dallas police responded to an early morning shooting call on Sunday, Aug. 16. At&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1680,102,104,103,401,55516,672,95,142881,41928],"class_list":["post-409059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-arrest","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police","tag-dpd","tag-police","tag-shooting","tag-south-westmoreland-road","tag-weapon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409059","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=409059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}