Video: Off-Duty Dallas Police Officers Stop Fleeing Shooting Suspect
What to know
- A 23-year-old suspect outside a nightclub fled off-duty Dallas police officers working uniform security in the area.
- One officer shot the suspect in the shoulder when he refused to drop his weapon, but the man continued to flee despite being wounded.
- The suspect, who was armed with a .40-caliber Glock-style handgun, was finally subdued with a stun gun, and the man was taken to the hospitalized and faces multiple charges.
By Timia Cobb and Kathleen Ortiz
Source The Dallas Morning News
A man who had been shot by an off-duty officer, then shocked by a stun gun in a Dallas club parking lot Sunday still attempted to get away while wounded, police said.
Bryan Cruz-Campos, 23, faces charges of aggravated assault and evading arrest after a reported shooting occurred in a club parking lot in the 10700 block of Finnell Street at about 2:20 a.m. Sunday, Dallas police Chief Daniel Comeaux said at a news conference Thursday.
Off-duty uniformed officers had been working in the area as security when they heard shots fired, Comeaux said. Officers went toward the gunshots and found a man, later identified as Cruz-Campos, fighting with another man, Comeaux said.
The fight between the men started over a girl, a homicide detective said at the news conference.
Things escalated, one of the officers at the scene said. Cruz-Campos fired a handgun and grazed the other man’s face, Comeaux said.
Cruz-Campos ran away as officers approached and commanded him to drop the gun. He was able to run to another area of the parking lot, where he encountered off-duty Officer Keenen Anderson, Comeaux said.
Anderson’s body camera footage shows him chasing Cruz-Campos and yelling at him to put the gun down. Cruz-Campos continued to run.
At one point, Cruz-Campos moved his hand toward his pocket, which Comeaux said Anderson understood as Cruz-Campos reaching for his gun. Anderson reacted by shooting him in the shoulder.
Cruz-Campos ran for about 20 more seconds, and during that time Anderson fired another shot, but missed, body camera footage shows. Cruz-Campos then dropped his gun and got on the ground.
Anderson commanded Cruz-Campos to turn over so officers could handcuff him and administer first aid. When Cruz-Campos did not, Anderson could be seen in the footage shocking Cruz-Campos multiple times with a stun gun.
Cruz-Campos was shocked with the stun gun due to actively resisting as officers were trying to take him into custody, the detective at the news conference said.
Cruz-Campos told Anderson in the video that he ran because he was scared. He also said that the man he was fighting had a knife, which police did not confirm.
Cruz-Campos and the man he is accused of shooting were taken to a hospital. Cruz-Campos was released from the hospital on Sunday and taken into police custody, the detective said.
The gun used by the Cruz-Campos was a 40-caliber Glock style handgun, the detective said.
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