{"id":1019102,"date":"2026-08-23T13:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1019102\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T13:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:46:18","slug":"woman-shot-by-irving-police-after-threatening-officers-with-knife-department-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1019102\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman shot by Irving police after threatening officers with knife, department says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/irving-police-department-generic-irving-PD.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><strong>IRVING, Texas<\/strong> &#8211; Irving police shot and wounded a woman who authorities said was armed with a knife and advancing toward officers during a domestic disturbance call on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Irving police were called around 5:50 p.m. to the 300 block of Rolston Road, as officers arrived at the scene, they found a woman standing in the street with a knife and making threats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers gave her verbal commands, but she did not comply and continued moving toward them.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">One officer used a less-lethal weapon, police said, but it did not stop the woman. A second officer then fired their duty weapon, striking her.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers provided aid until Irving firefighters arrived and took the woman to a local hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No officers were injured.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Irving police will conduct criminal and administrative investigations, as is standard after an officer-involved shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Dallas County Public Integrity Unit will also conduct a separate investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information in this article was provided by the Irving Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/irving\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Irving<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article IRVING, Texas &#8211; Irving police shot and wounded a woman who authorities said was armed with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1019103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,6082,1596,7290,9732,50,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1019102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-irving","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117145135708808010","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1019103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}