Deputy Injured, Suspect Shot at Traffic Stop

Oct. 20, 2016
A Dallas County sheriff's deputy shot and wounded a suspect who ran over his foot late Wednesday afternoon in South Dallas.
DALLAS -- A Dallas County sheriff's deputy shot and wounded a man late Wednesday afternoon in South Dallas, officials said. 

The shooting occurred after deputies attempted to serve two warrants about 4:30 p.m. at a Church's Chicken. The man recognized the deputies and fled in a vehicle, Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Melinda Urbina said. 

A short chase ended at the intersection of Lagow and Copeland streets, less than a half-mile away. The deputies got out of their vehicle, ran up to the man's vehicle and told him to get out, Urbina said. 

The man put his car in reverse, running over a deputy's foot, and the deputy fired his weapon, striking the man an unknown number of times, Urbina said. 

It's unclear whether the man had a firearm. 

The man drove off and crashed a block away into the iron fence around a house at Lagow and Marshall streets. He took off on foot but collapsed and was apprehended, Urbina said. 

The man, whose identity has not been confirmed, was taken to Baylor University Medical Center. He was in stable condition Wednesday night. 

He will be charged with assault on a public servant and evading arrest.

Deputies will be reviewing security camera video from the Diamond J's convenience store near where the man crashed his car, Urbina said. 

The shots rang out Wednesday afternoon as people were preparing to gather less than a mile away at the grocery store where a 6-year-old girl was wounded and a man was killed in separate shootings in less than a week. 

The rally was arranged by the Next Generation Action Network, the group that organized a peaceful protest July 7 that ended in a deadly ambush on police officers in downtown Dallas. 

"This type of violence is plaguing our community," Dominique Alexander, president and founder of the group, said ahead of the rally.

Hours earlier, 25-year-old Darrius Neal was fatally gunned down in the 2600 block of Pine Street, which is less than a mile and a half  from the convenience store and not far from the site of the deputy-involved shooting. 

The South Dallas shooting was the second on Wednesday that involved law enforcement. 

A plainclothes Dallas police officer fatally shot a man Wednesday morning in west Oak Cliff after finding him in a vehicle stolen in a carjacking the night before.

Anthony Garcia, 24, got out of the car and approached the officer while holding a gun, police said.

Garcia died at the scene. The officer wasn't injured.

Copyright 2016 The Dallas Morning News

Tribune News Service

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