{"id":88877,"date":"2025-12-15T18:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/88877\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T18:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:54:10","slug":"car-chase-turns-into-officer-involved-shooting-texas-rangers-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/88877\/","title":{"rendered":"Car chase turns into officer-involved shooting; Texas Rangers investigating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/esedcc0gaglkjtnx.jpg\" alt=\"Bell County officer-involved shooting\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/video\/1756625\" data-v-4292be72=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bell County officer-involved shooting<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-4292be72=\"\">Texas DPS is investigating an officer-involved shooting following a vehicle pursuit that ended in Bell County. FOX 7 Austin&#8217;s Jessica Rivera reports.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">JARRELL, Texas &#8211; Texas Rangers are investigating an officer-involved shooting after a car chase that began in Williamson County and ended in Bell County.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The roadways were closed late Sunday night as part of the protocol for an officer-involved shooting.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The incident began as a vehicle pursuit involving the Jarrell Police Department which ended in Temple near Exit 306 on I-35.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The driver of the vehicle was taken to a local hospital and as of Sunday night was receiving medical treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">No officers were injured during the incident.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">It is currently unknown what prompted the car chase or the shooting.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The Texas Rangers have taken lead in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The officer involved in this incident had been placed on paid administrative leave in accordance with department policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this report comes from the Jarrell Police Department and reporting by FOX 7 Austin&#8217;s Jessica Rivera<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/williamson-county\/jarrell\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jarrell<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/bell-county\/temple\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Temple<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bell County officer-involved shooting Texas DPS is investigating an officer-involved shooting following a vehicle pursuit that ended in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30675,1046,42122,223,12341,27,29,28,216,393,2538],"class_list":{"0":"post-88877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-bell-county","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-jarrell","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-temple","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-texas-headlines","15":"tag-texas-news","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-williamson-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88877","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=88877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}