{"id":355913,"date":"2025-11-04T21:38:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/355913\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T21:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:38:31","slug":"jacksonville-police-officer-struck-twice-by-suspects-rifle-this-was-a-targeted-and-intentional-attack-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/355913\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville police officer struck twice by suspect\u2019s rifle; \u2018This was a targeted and intentional attack,\u2019 chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; A Jacksonville police officer was struck twice by bullets, once while trying to take cover, in a confrontation with a wanted suspect on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Jacksonville Police Department held a briefing on the second day of a manhunt for the suspect, Bobby Michael Dennis, 64.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police Chief Steven Markasky said the officer was patrolling the area of Churchill Street when she saw Dennis, who had outstanding warrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The officer referred to the suspect as \u201cMr. Dennis\u201d and asked him to surrender, Markasky said. Markasky said Dennis then started firing an AR-15 at the officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Markasky said the officer was struck once in the arm and she tried to take cover and she was then struck in the leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cDuring this whole time, the officer didn\u2019t fire or draw her weapon,\u201d Markasky said. \u201cThis was a targeted and intentional attack. His actions were nothing short of evil. The officer did nothing wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a Blue Alert, issued by Texas DPS, Dennis is 5\u20329\u2033, 152 pounds, and has a gray 2000 GMC Sierra with license plates TRW3919. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/2025\/11\/03\/jacksonville-isd-cancels-classes-due-manhunt\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/2025\/11\/03\/jacksonville-isd-cancels-classes-due-manhunt\/\">Gov. Greg Abbott has also announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Dennis i<\/a>n the shooting of the Jacksonville police officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jacksonville ISD schools did not open on Monday or Tuesday due to the ongoing manhunt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If you know where Dennis is, you are asked to share the tip in either of these two ways.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list | article-list\">\n<li>Call the Texas Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477)<\/li>\n<li>Submit a web tip through the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dps.texas.gov\/texas10mostwanted\/mostwanted\/fugitives\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dps.texas.gov\/texas10mostwanted\/mostwanted\/fugitives\">Texas 10 Most Wanted website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"The picture is a stock image released by DPS of a truck similar to Bobby Dennis'. It is a 2000...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SRSWBK32WVFSFOANVSLUBJJUTY.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"588\" \/>The picture is a stock image released by DPS of a truck similar to Bobby Dennis&#8217;. It is a 2000 Gmc Sierra, gray, with TX tag TRW3919.(Texas DPS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; A Jacksonville police officer was struck twice by bullets, once while trying to take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":355914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,173655,3188,723,56183,7310,83859,87921,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-355913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cherokee-county","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-fugitive","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-manhunt","15":"tag-ois","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115493596513246582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355913","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=355913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}