A 27-year-old man accused of shooting a Dallas ISD police officer with the officer\u2019s own gun last month has been indicted on a federal firearms charge.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced a grand jury indictment of Jose Santiago Pantoja-Morales. A federal grand jury indicted Jose Santiago Pantoja-Morales, a Mexican national, on a charge of unlawfully possessing a firearm, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Previously, a charge of aggravated assault against a public servant was filed by the Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n
Pantoja-Morales is accused of shooting Justin Jones, a uniformed officer, during a struggle on Aug. 6 after the officer stopped to help him, according to a federal criminal complaint filed the following week.<\/p>\n
What happened to the Dallas ISD officer?<\/p>\n
According to the federal complaint, Pantoja-Morales jumped from a co-worker\u2019s vehicle into the center median of LBJ Freeway on Aug. 6. The co-worker flagged down Jones, who was on routine patrol.<\/p>\n
The officer offered Pantoja-Morales a ride to a nearby safe location, investigators said.<\/p>\n
During the ride, Pantoja-Morales allegedly began rummaging through the officer’s bag in the back seat. When the Jones stopped and attempted to remove him from the vehicle, investigators said Pantoja-Morales resisted, and the two began struggling.<\/p>\n
Investigators allege Pantoja-Morales grabbed Jones\u2019 firearm during the struggle and fired once, striking the officer in the femoral artery of his right leg.<\/p>\n
Jones regained control of the gun, according to the complaint, while Pantoja-Morales fled. He was apprehended a short time later.<\/p>\n
Another Dallas ISD officer provided medical treatment at the scene before the wounded officer was taken to Parkland Hospital.<\/p>\n
An indictment is an allegation of criminal conduct. Pantoja-Morales is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old man accused of shooting a Dallas ISD police officer with the officer\u2019s own gun last month…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-446148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446148","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=446148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}