{"id":473992,"date":"2026-10-23T01:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T01:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473992\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T01:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T01:02:09","slug":"one-dead-after-hourslong-standoff-on-i-45-i-20-interchange-in-dallas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473992\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after hourslong standoff on I-45, I-20 interchange in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person is dead after police say the person jumped following a standoff that lasted for hours and closed all lanes of the Interstate 20 and I-45 interchange, snarling traffic on a key transportation route in southern Dallas County.<\/p>\n<p>The lanes appeared to have reopened as of 6:15\u00a0p.m. Thursday, according to Texas Department of Transportation cameras.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Thursday afternoon, at\u00a0least a dozen police and emergency service vehicles were seen at the location as the incident unfolded. Dallas police said they responded to the scene at 9:40 a.m., and all lanes of the bridge were closed beginning at 10 a.m., according to Texas Department of Transportation traffic cameras. The interstate running beneath the bridge, I-20 East, was also closed. Traffic was backed up for miles on both I-45 and I-20 near\u00a0Hutchins throughout the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police were\u00a0seen on the traffic cameras talking to a man standing near the side of the bridge next to a silver-colored sedan. Cameras showed police attempting to speak with the individual before they apparently jumped.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Asbury contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person is dead after police say the person jumped following a standoff that lasted for hours and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,100447,17921,88573,88572,89139,100510],"class_list":["post-473992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news-transportation","tag-service","tag-tp-traffic","tag-tp-transportation","tag-tp-dallas-police","tag-tp-traffic-accidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473992","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=473992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}