{"id":436015,"date":"2026-09-14T22:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T22:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436015\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T22:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T22:56:09","slug":"murder-suspect-dies-following-chase-shooting-and-fiery-crash-along-i-35-near-cooke-county-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436015\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder suspect dies following chase, shooting and fiery crash along I-35 near Cooke County line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Plano murder suspect has died after a police chase ended in gunfire and a fiery crash along I-35 near Valley View on Monday morning, officials say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Valley View Police Department, at about 10 a.m., officers responded to assist in a police pursuit of a vehicle traveling northbound on I-35 from Denton County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the suspect was wanted in connection with a murder investigation out of Plano.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Plano murder<\/p>\n<p>Plano police said it happened off Lakestream Drive.  <\/p>\n<p>Police say a woman was found dead after being shot multiple times. The suspect is believed to be her ex-boyfriend. There were other family members in the house who were not harmed, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance was set up overnight, and his car was tracked to I-35 Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Suspect opens fire on troopers before fleeing<\/p>\n<p>Initially, DPS troopers located the suspect vehicle and attempted a traffic stop, but the suspect allegedly opened fire on the troopers and fled the scene, Valley PD confirmed. <\/p>\n<p>The chase continued northbound into Valley View, where the suspect vehicle crashed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement from several agencies surrounded the vehicle, which then caught fire. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect, who hasn&#8217;t been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene, but it&#8217;s unclear if the suspect was injured in the shooting or the vehicle fire. <\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas Chopper 11 showed several law enforcement agencies at the scene over the charred suspect vehicle and an extinguished grass fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Plano police said they&#8217;re working to officially confirm the suspect&#8217;s identity with the Medical Examiner.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The northbound lanes of I-35E are reopening as of 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing. CBS News Texas is working to gather more details and will update.\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 Plano murder suspect has died after a police chase ended in gunfire and a fiery crash along&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1738,1643,160,162,161,5298],"class_list":["post-436015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-car-crash","tag-denton-county","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-police-chase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436015","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=436015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}