Fly320s
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Fox News is reporting a Dallas Police Officer was shot during a traffic stop.
KDFW (Fox station in Dallas) is providing overhead live video of aftermath.
KDFW (Fox station in Dallas) is providing overhead live video of aftermath.
Cop Shot: breaking news in Dallas
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Link: www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/Home/D...n=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1
DPD Officer Shot Confronting Homicide Suspect
Last Edited: Friday, 23 Mar 2007, 6:29 PM CDT
Created: Friday, 23 Mar 2007, 6:29 PM CDT
Office Shot, Suspect At Large in Dallas
DALLAS -- A DPD officer was shot in West Dallas after confronting a homicide suspect, who is still at large. The officer was rushed to Parkland Hospital and Dallas SWAT has surrounded the car where the suspect is possibly hiding. SideBar
DPD Officer Shot Confronting Homicide Suspect
Last Edited: Friday, 23 Mar 2007, 6:29 PM CDT
Created: Friday, 23 Mar 2007, 6:29 PM CDT
Office Shot, Suspect At Large in Dallas
DALLAS -- A DPD officer was shot in West Dallas after confronting a homicide suspect, who is still at large. The officer was rushed to Parkland Hospital and Dallas SWAT has surrounded the car where the suspect is possibly hiding. SideBar
Fly320s
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Judging by the live video feed, the suspect is DRT.
Lots of bullet holes in the suspect's car.
Lots of bullet holes in the suspect's car.
cngerms
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UGGH! The DPD officer has expired.
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DALLAS -- A DPD officer was shot and killed in West Dallas after confronting a homicide suspect. The officer died at Parkland Hospital as the suspect entered into a standoff with Dallas SWAT
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DALLAS -- A DPD officer was shot and killed in West Dallas after confronting a homicide suspect. The officer died at Parkland Hospital as the suspect entered into a standoff with Dallas SWAT
Fly320s
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The Dallas Police Department officer was killed.
TCB in TN
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My thoughts and prayers go out to the family, and friends of the officer.
Sindawe
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That really bites. 
Any updates on the suspect?
Any updates on the suspect?
Johnny Guest
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Last I could find - -
Strangely, there was no tape shown which depicted SWAT removing suspect from the car.
I missed the 9 pm newscast on Ch 4. There wil be much coverage at ten.
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Johnny
Tape from news helo showed half the police on duty in Dallas were doing perimeter security, in case another suspect had run from the car in the shootout. Shooter was slumped over the steering wheel, still alive. Dallas SWAT surrounded the car with two armored cars and about 12 troops. They flashbanged the car and moved in. Cut to suspect on ground to left of car. Medics loaded him onto cart and placed into ambulance.Sindawe said:
Strangely, there was no tape shown which depicted SWAT removing suspect from the car.
I missed the 9 pm newscast on Ch 4. There wil be much coverage at ten.
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Johnny
Johnny Guest
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Actually, the news coverage was pretty good.
One thing that irked me badly, though - - -
TV story (not direct quote but close) "The name of the deceased officer is not being rfeleased, pending notification of his next of kin. . . . The officer had been employed by Dallas Police since June of 2000. He was __ years old."
One hopes the family didn'[t see THAT story. DPD academy classes are not THAT large.
Prayers and best wishes for the officer's family and friends.
Johnny
One thing that irked me badly, though - - -
TV story (not direct quote but close) "The name of the deceased officer is not being rfeleased, pending notification of his next of kin. . . . The officer had been employed by Dallas Police since June of 2000. He was __ years old."
One hopes the family didn'[t see THAT story. DPD academy classes are not THAT large.
Prayers and best wishes for the officer's family and friends.
Johnny
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aerod1
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Another good man has been taken from us today. My prayers go out to his family and all of the police fraternity. God bless you all!
With any luck at all the killer will die as well. If not, that bastard will be in the court system for years.
With any luck at all the killer will die as well. If not, that bastard will be in the court system for years.
Cosmoline
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Are there any significant tactical details or is this just a thread about someone getting shot somewhere?
Frog48
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Man, that really sucks.
When I was at TCU, majoring in criminal justice, DPD spammed our student email accounts like crazy, trying to recruit. I know of a few classmates that went to work there.
When I was at TCU, majoring in criminal justice, DPD spammed our student email accounts like crazy, trying to recruit. I know of a few classmates that went to work there.
Cosmoline
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Or anything that would have broader importance. Otherwise it's just a lot of pointless hand wringing and chest thumping, isn't it?
bill larry
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Oh man, this is terrible. One never wants to see an officer killed in the line of duty.
On a side note, on my drive from D/FW to San Antonio this very night, I was pulled over by a DPS trooper...they climbed up my butt with a microscope once the gentleman saw my SKS in the back of my suburban...now I know why, I guess.
One never wants to see an officer killed in the line of duty.On a side note, on my drive from D/FW to San Antonio this very night, I was pulled over by a DPS trooper...they climbed up my butt with a microscope once the gentleman saw my SKS in the back of my suburban...now I know why, I guess.
Greybeard
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcon...s/stories/032407dnmetofficershot.d7c4762.html
Dallas officer dies after shootout
01:40 AM CDT on Saturday, March 24, 2007
By TANYA EISERER, JASON TRAHAN and HOLLY YAN / The Dallas Morning News
A Dallas police officer was gunned down with an assault rifle Friday evening after a high-speed chase through a West Dallas neighborhood.
Dallas police officers consoled each other outside Parkland Memorial Hospital after one of their comrades, Senior Cpl. Mark T. Nix, 33, was shot in a West Dallas neighborhood Friday night. He died later at Parkland. Senior Cpl. Mark T. Nix, 33, was fatally struck in the neck and chest as he approached the car, which may have been seen fleeing a recent slaying.
But police said later that they don't believe that the man driving the car Friday was involved in the slaying.
Police said the driver was critically wounded in a shootout after he fired on officers about 6 p.m.
Cpl. Nix was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital in a patrol car because traffic congestion prevented an ambulance from immediately reaching the scene. He died a short time later.
The officer was hired in June 2000 and was assigned to the northwest patrol station.
"My heart goes out to the family, and all the other officers," said Police Chief David Kunkle, reached in Las Vegas at a family function.
Plainclothes officers had spotted a two-tone red and gray Chevrolet Caprice about 5:30 p.m. Friday that closely fit the description of the car seen fleeing the scene of a fatal shooting two days earlier in the 1500 block of Southerland Avenue in southeast Oak Cliff.
"They called and said, 'We think we're behind a murder suspect,' " said Sgt. Gary Kirkpatrick, a homicide supervisor who investigates police shootings.
In serious job, officer kept things light
Sharon Martin said she pulled into her driveway on Bernal Drive seconds before she saw the Chevrolet Caprice flying by at about 80 mph.
"He wasn't dodging anything," she said.
As several police cars followed with lights and sirens on, the Caprice spun out of control, landing in a yard in the 4100 block of Bernal.
Then she heard the gunshots.
"You couldn't count them," said Ms. Martin, who had come home to take her son to basketball practice. "It sounded like fireworks."
Sgt. Kirkpatrick said officers were close to apprehending the man when he began shooting from inside the car.
"One of the officers tries to get him out of the car and he shoots" Cpl. Nix, Sgt. Kirkpatrick said. Other officers returned fire, riddling the Caprice with bullet holes. Officers pulled Cpl. Nix away and rushed him to Parkland.
"Due to the time of the event, there was a lot of traffic," said spokesman Sgt. Gil Cerda, who was visibly shaken at Parkland. "So the ambulance was not able to get there on time. One of the officers actually transported our officer to the hospital."
Senior Cpl. Jeremy Borchardt, the officer who reportedly drove Cpl. Nix to Parkland, was himself shot on duty in late August during a standoff outside a motel room.
On Bernal, police cleared the neighborhood as tactical officers surrounded the car with the wounded gunman still inside. About an hour later, the standoff ended.
When officers searched the Caprice, they found an assault rifle and what they believe to be crystal methamphetamine.
Cpl. Nix became the fourth North Texas police officer killed in the line of duty since November 2005.
Friends said Cpl. Nix, who was engaged to be married, was a Desert Storm veteran and majored in philosophy in college. They described the six-year veteran who worked the night shift in northwest Dallas as a hardworking cop with a dry, sarcastic humor.
"He was a wonderful man and an even better officer," Senior Cpl. Janice Crowther told reporters. "I didn't know too many officers that worked harder than he did. He was very humorous. He kept us laughing and actually made our job a lot easier."
Officer Michael Hubner said Cpl. Nix was on his paintball team, which played in the police olympics for the last three years.
A friend said Cpl. Nix also was a Navy field medic. Even in the toughest times, Cpl. Nix kept his humor, she said.
"He would send funny postcards on the K-ration boxes," the friend said. "Most wouldn't think he's got a sense of humor, but he's extremely funny."
As officers gathered to mourn their fallen colleague and lowered the flag at his northwest patrol substation, investigators worked to piece together the events that led to his death – the 77th death in the line of duty for the Dallas Police Department.
Officers thought the Caprice was the same one seen leaving the scene of a fatal shooting at 1:45 a.m. Wednesday.
Vincent Wesley, 21, was shot in the head inside a drug house in the 1500 block of Southerland Avenue. The motive, apparently, was robbery, and the suspect and victim probably knew each other, police said.
Investigators said there was a large amount of marijuana scattered in the street in front of the home. Another man who was inside the home dived through a window to escape the killer.
Investigators believe the killer or killers fled in a late 1990s two-tone red and gray Chevrolet Caprice.
The department's newly established Fusion Center, designed to get crime intelligence out into the field quickly, issued an alert the day of the slaying, and again Thursday.
Staff writers Michael Grabell and Ty A. Allison contributed to this report.
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Dallas officer dies after shootout
01:40 AM CDT on Saturday, March 24, 2007
By TANYA EISERER, JASON TRAHAN and HOLLY YAN / The Dallas Morning News
A Dallas police officer was gunned down with an assault rifle Friday evening after a high-speed chase through a West Dallas neighborhood.
Dallas police officers consoled each other outside Parkland Memorial Hospital after one of their comrades, Senior Cpl. Mark T. Nix, 33, was shot in a West Dallas neighborhood Friday night. He died later at Parkland. Senior Cpl. Mark T. Nix, 33, was fatally struck in the neck and chest as he approached the car, which may have been seen fleeing a recent slaying.
But police said later that they don't believe that the man driving the car Friday was involved in the slaying.
Police said the driver was critically wounded in a shootout after he fired on officers about 6 p.m.
Cpl. Nix was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital in a patrol car because traffic congestion prevented an ambulance from immediately reaching the scene. He died a short time later.
The officer was hired in June 2000 and was assigned to the northwest patrol station.
"My heart goes out to the family, and all the other officers," said Police Chief David Kunkle, reached in Las Vegas at a family function.
Plainclothes officers had spotted a two-tone red and gray Chevrolet Caprice about 5:30 p.m. Friday that closely fit the description of the car seen fleeing the scene of a fatal shooting two days earlier in the 1500 block of Southerland Avenue in southeast Oak Cliff.
"They called and said, 'We think we're behind a murder suspect,' " said Sgt. Gary Kirkpatrick, a homicide supervisor who investigates police shootings.
In serious job, officer kept things light
Sharon Martin said she pulled into her driveway on Bernal Drive seconds before she saw the Chevrolet Caprice flying by at about 80 mph.
"He wasn't dodging anything," she said.
As several police cars followed with lights and sirens on, the Caprice spun out of control, landing in a yard in the 4100 block of Bernal.
Then she heard the gunshots.
"You couldn't count them," said Ms. Martin, who had come home to take her son to basketball practice. "It sounded like fireworks."
Sgt. Kirkpatrick said officers were close to apprehending the man when he began shooting from inside the car.
"One of the officers tries to get him out of the car and he shoots" Cpl. Nix, Sgt. Kirkpatrick said. Other officers returned fire, riddling the Caprice with bullet holes. Officers pulled Cpl. Nix away and rushed him to Parkland.
"Due to the time of the event, there was a lot of traffic," said spokesman Sgt. Gil Cerda, who was visibly shaken at Parkland. "So the ambulance was not able to get there on time. One of the officers actually transported our officer to the hospital."
Senior Cpl. Jeremy Borchardt, the officer who reportedly drove Cpl. Nix to Parkland, was himself shot on duty in late August during a standoff outside a motel room.
On Bernal, police cleared the neighborhood as tactical officers surrounded the car with the wounded gunman still inside. About an hour later, the standoff ended.
When officers searched the Caprice, they found an assault rifle and what they believe to be crystal methamphetamine.
Cpl. Nix became the fourth North Texas police officer killed in the line of duty since November 2005.
Friends said Cpl. Nix, who was engaged to be married, was a Desert Storm veteran and majored in philosophy in college. They described the six-year veteran who worked the night shift in northwest Dallas as a hardworking cop with a dry, sarcastic humor.
"He was a wonderful man and an even better officer," Senior Cpl. Janice Crowther told reporters. "I didn't know too many officers that worked harder than he did. He was very humorous. He kept us laughing and actually made our job a lot easier."
Officer Michael Hubner said Cpl. Nix was on his paintball team, which played in the police olympics for the last three years.
A friend said Cpl. Nix also was a Navy field medic. Even in the toughest times, Cpl. Nix kept his humor, she said.
"He would send funny postcards on the K-ration boxes," the friend said. "Most wouldn't think he's got a sense of humor, but he's extremely funny."
As officers gathered to mourn their fallen colleague and lowered the flag at his northwest patrol substation, investigators worked to piece together the events that led to his death – the 77th death in the line of duty for the Dallas Police Department.
Officers thought the Caprice was the same one seen leaving the scene of a fatal shooting at 1:45 a.m. Wednesday.
Vincent Wesley, 21, was shot in the head inside a drug house in the 1500 block of Southerland Avenue. The motive, apparently, was robbery, and the suspect and victim probably knew each other, police said.
Investigators said there was a large amount of marijuana scattered in the street in front of the home. Another man who was inside the home dived through a window to escape the killer.
Investigators believe the killer or killers fled in a late 1990s two-tone red and gray Chevrolet Caprice.
The department's newly established Fusion Center, designed to get crime intelligence out into the field quickly, issued an alert the day of the slaying, and again Thursday.
Staff writers Michael Grabell and Ty A. Allison contributed to this report.
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Greybeard
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Channel 5 news last night at 10:00 said AR-15 ...
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