{"id":429403,"date":"2026-09-08T08:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T08:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429403\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T08:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T08:16:11","slug":"driver-gunned-down-in-dallas-parking-lot-monday-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429403\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver gunned down in Dallas parking lot Monday \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver was killed in a shooting in the Lake Highlands &#8220;L Streets&#8221; neighborhood in Dallas on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dallas Police, someone shot the driver near Plano Road and Walnut Hill just after noon. The driver, who crashed into a tree after the shooting, was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>When NBC 5&#8217;s crew arrived, they found Walnut Hill blocked off, patrol vehicles everywhere and more than a dozen evidence markers in a Family Dollar parking lot. The victim&#8217;s vehicle was stopped across Walnut Hill, on the sidewalk in front of a storage unit business.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788855371_51_dallas-plano-road-shooting-cu.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Dallas Police investigate a shooting in Lake Highlands on Monday, Sept. 7, 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tNBC 5 NewsNBC 5 News<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Police investigate a shooting in Lake Highlands on Monday, Sept. 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Take 5 Oil Change shares the parking lot with Family Dollar and showed NBC 5 surveillance video that appeared to show someone shooting at a white car in the parking lot at about 12:21 p.m., and that car then crossing Walnut Hill.<\/p>\n<p>A person who lives near the intersection said he was in his backyard next to the store when he heard gunshots. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I heard a crazy disturbance, gunshots, when I was in my garage,&#8221; said Landry Honeycutt, who lives nearby in the Highland Park neighborhood and described the shots as &#8220;rapid-fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019d never heard gunshots other than firing a gun on my own. I\u2019d never heard one that close in my backyard and yeah, it was pretty crazy,&#8221; said Honeycutt.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video showed the white car believed to be the victim&#8217;s roll across the lot after shots were fired.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I opened up my gate, and that\u2019s when I saw the car had crossed the street and stopped, and then shortly after that the sirens started coming in,&#8221; Honeycutt described.<\/p>\n<p>For hours, drivers were rerouted along Walnut Hill Lane as the investigation unfolded. NBC 5 cameras on scene captured dozens of shell casings marked by police.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the driver has not been confirmed and will be released after their family has been notified of their death.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not released any information about what led to the shooting or provided any description of the shooter. No arrests have been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver was killed in a shooting in the Lake Highlands &#8220;L Streets&#8221; neighborhood in Dallas on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,103,5603],"class_list":["post-429403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-gun-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429403","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=429403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}