{"id":571785,"date":"2026-04-08T12:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571785\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:51:16","slug":"johnson-county-deputy-shot-as-deputies-respond-to-trailer-fire-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/571785\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson County deputy shot as deputies respond to trailer fire \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Johnson County deputy is injured after he was shot overnight in Burleson, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>According to Johnson County Chief Deputy James Saulter, the incident started with a call about a fire at a trailer home on County Road 605 around 1 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>Officials said fire crews reported being shot at as they arrived at the scene. They then called the Johnson County Sheriff&#8217;s Department for assistance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Video-52-e1775645773452.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>When Johnson County deputies arrived, the suspect began shooting at them as well, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Johnson County officials, one of the deputies was shot. No other injuries have been reported. <\/p>\n<p>Chief Deputy Saulter said the injured deputy was shot in the face, but it&#8217;s unclear if he was struck by shrapnel. The injured deputy was taken to a hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is confirmed to be dead. The details surrounding the suspect&#8217;s death are unclear at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters had to pause their efforts to put out the fire during the shooting, but were able to resume afterward. The fire has since been extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Rangers are now investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Check back and refresh this page for the latest updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Johnson County deputy is injured after he was shot overnight in Burleson, officials say. According to Johnson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-571785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}