{"id":292003,"date":"2025-10-10T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/292003\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:10:10","slug":"2-detained-after-allegedly-pointing-laser-shooting-at-dps-helicopter-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/292003\/","title":{"rendered":"2 detained after allegedly pointing laser, shooting at DPS helicopter in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/v-dpd-other-dps-laser-point-4a_00.00.08.46.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>DALLAS<\/strong> &#8211; Two suspects were detained after allegedly pointing a laser at a Department of Public Safety (DPS) helicopter and firing a gun multiple times in the air near the aircraft, according to Dallas police.<\/p>\n<p>Laser pointed at DPS in Dallas <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">A DPS helicopter pilot was flying over southeast Dallas just before midnight when the crew spotted an individual firing a gun several times near a basketball court. The crew contacted Dallas police after the pilot reported that the person was also allegedly aiming a laser at the helicopter.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The suspects then drove to a store near the 3500 block of Simpson Stuart Road, where Dallas police officers conducted a traffic stop and detained the two people.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police are working to positively identify the individuals as they await video evidence from DPS. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The identities of the detained suspects have not been released. It is unclear why the suspects were firing the gun into the air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information in this article comes from Dallas police.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS &#8211; Two suspects were detained after allegedly pointing a laser at a Department of Public Safety&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":292004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,6082,1596,7290,50,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-292003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-county","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115350040179470342","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292003","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=292003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}