{"id":61857,"date":"2025-11-23T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/61857\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T17:08:09","slug":"burglary-suspect-fatally-shot-by-grand-prairie-home-owner-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/61857\/","title":{"rendered":"Burglary suspect fatally shot by Grand Prairie home owner identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officials have identified the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/11\/17\/attempted-home-burglary-in-grand-prairie-led-to-shooting-that-left-one-dead-officials-say\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">burglary suspect<\/a> who was shot and killed inside a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/grand-prairie\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/grand-prairie\/\">Grand Prairie<\/a> home this November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">An\u00edbal Nahum Ramos Rodr\u00edguez, 35, was shot and killed after entering a person\u2019s home in the 400 block of Santa Margarita Street Nov. 16, according to the Dallas County medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officers responded to the home for a suspicious person call at about 1:50 a.m., Grand Prairie police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The owner of the home had called the police and reported that an unknown person had forcibly entered the rear door of his house, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The homeowner, described by the police as an elderly male, was armed with a hunting rifle. He confronted the burglary suspect \u201cwho was rummaging through property inside of the house,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police said the homeowner then shot the suspect in fear for his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Ramos Rodr\u00edguez died at 2:33 a.m., according to the medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Police did not identify the homeowner. Police said the shooting is being investigated as self-defense, and no charges are expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials have identified the burglary suspect who was shot and killed inside a Grand Prairie home this November.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,294,102,1279,223],"class_list":{"0":"post-61857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-grand-prairie","14":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61857","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=61857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}