{"id":167346,"date":"2025-08-22T20:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167346\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:19:09","slug":"22-year-old-man-arrested-in-connection-with-fatal-northwest-dallas-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167346\/","title":{"rendered":"22-year-old man arrested in connection with fatal northwest Dallas shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a fatal northwest Dallas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/08\/18\/34-year-old-man-fatally-shot-in-northwest-dallas-police-say\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2025\/08\/18\/34-year-old-man-fatally-shot-in-northwest-dallas-police-say\/\">shooting earlier this week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Rocky Mejia Jr. was booked Thursday into the Dallas County jail on a capital murder charge in the death of 34-year-old Juan Hernandez Esparza. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">As of Friday afternoon, Mejia\u2019s bail had not yet been set, and it was unclear if he had an attorney. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">According to police officials, Hernandez Esparza was found lying on the ground with a gunshot wound about 3:20 a.m. Monday in the 3200 block of Lombardy Lane, near Geraldine Drive. <\/p>\n<p>Crime in The News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-cta-social-module__zWZy- mb-4\">Read the crime and public safety news your neighbors are talking about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Hernandez Esparza was taken to a hospital, where he died, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">It was not immediately clear what led police to Mejia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a fatal northwest Dallas shooting earlier this week. Rocky&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,4219,1596,4221,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-167346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-homicide","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115074273485160335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167346","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=167346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}