Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
Thanks to A Texas Reader.
At the Dallas Marxist News
UPDATE: Kidnapping suspect shot, killed after police chase in Pleasant Grove
By Tasha Tsiaperas
ttsiaperas@dallasnews.com
11:13 am on August 25, 2014
Dallas Morning News
The chase ended in a crash outside an auto shop at Lake June and Prairie Creek roads. (David Woo/Staff Photographer)
Update at 3:56 p.m.:
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Investigators have identified the man who was shot as 29-year-old Steven Douglas.
A witness told police that Douglas pointed a small-caliber handgun at police Officer Rogelio Moreno before the officer shot him.
Authorities now say Douglas snatched his two children from their mother after ramming her car. Both children, an infant and a 9-year-old girl, are safe and sound; a third child was left behind with the woman.
The mother was interviewed by domestic violence investigators, so she, too, appears to be OK.
Douglas was previously arrested in December after he chased after the same woman and a man she was with. Witnesses told police he struck the man’s leg and rammed his car before fleeing.
He was sentenced to five years’ probation in the aggravated assault case on July 31.
Update at 12:45 p.m.:
Police have confirmed that an officer shot a kidnapping suspect as he ran from police this morning in Pleasant Grove.
Witnesses said the man was armed. Police did not say whether they found a gun.
The chase began after the man confronted the mother of his children about 7:30 a.m. while she was driving them to school near the Dallas Zoo.
Dallas police Maj. Jeff Cotner said the man attacked the woman, took their 9-year-old daughter and fled in his green pickup. The woman’s condition was not released.
Using the man’s cellphone, police tracked him down in Pleasant Grove shortly before 11 a.m. It’s unclear whether the daughter was still with him; police did not release any details on her whereabouts.
Officers chased the man to the intersection of Lake June and Prairie Creek roads, where he crashed into the passenger side of a white Toyota minivan. Police said he abandoned the pickup and ran toward an auto shop. Cotner said three employees at the shop told police that the man was armed as he ran toward them.
One of the four officers chasing the suspect shot him, and he died at the scene.
No one else was injured in the shooting.
Update at 11:55 a.m.:
Police say the suspect in this morning’s chase and officer-involved shooting has died. No officers were injured, police spokeswoman Monica Cordova said.
No word yet on whether he was killed by police or died from a self-inflicted wound. Initial reports were that the unidentified man was armed and suicidal.
This would be the 12th shooting of a civilian by a police officer in Dallas this year — and the fifth in the past three weeks.
Lately, every Dallas police shooting has earned increased attention, partially because of the national spotlight on a deadly shooting by police in Ferguson, Mo., as well as the Dallas County district attorney’s plan to investigate such shootings independently of police.
Original entry:
Shots were fired at a suspect after a police chase ended in a crash in Pleasant Grove.
Officers responded to a family disturbance call and started chasing a suspect. The chase ended after a two-car crash at the intersection of Prairie Creek and Lake June roads.
1 comment:
The first thing I did think on reading this entry is that this is going to be another Ferguson. The suspect [and he was only a suspect at that stage] was shot and killed while fleeing.
The Supreme Court standard is that a fleeing felon can be shot by the police if in the opinion of the officer at the scene the fleeing felon is potentially a violent threat.
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