{"id":413650,"date":"2026-08-22T07:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413650\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T07:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:26:25","slug":"dallas-isd-police-officer-shot-by-suspect-released-from-hospital-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413650\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas ISD police officer shot by suspect released from hospital \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Dallas ISD police officer who was shot in the leg by a man police said managed to get hold of the officer’s weapon has been released from the hospital.<\/p>\n

The district did not release any additional information about Justin Jones, a 16-year veteran of the district’s police force who was wounded on Aug. 6.<\/p>\n

Jose Pantoja-Morales was arrested and charged with aggravated assault on a public servant.<\/p>\n

Dallas Police said Jones told them he was on a routine patrol when he stopped to help Pantoja-Morales, who was walking along the center median of LBJ Freeway, according to an arrest warrant affidavit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jones told investigators that Pantoja-Morales willingly got into his patrol unit so the officer could drop him off at a store near the freeway. He said he stopped the vehicle when Pantoja-Morales began pulling items out of his work bag.<\/p>\n

Jones said that as he tried to remove Pantjoa-Morales from his vehicle, he began resisting and grabbed his gun and shot him once in the leg before running away.<\/p>\n

Pantoja-Morales was later arrested, and investigators said he admitted to the shooting. Online records show he is still booked into the Dallas County Jail. It’s unclear if Pantjoa-Morales has an attorney to speak on his behalf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dallas ISD police officer who was shot in the leg by a man police said managed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[803,102,104,103],"class_list":["post-413650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413650","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=413650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}