{"id":65559,"date":"2025-07-14T18:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65559\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:39:08","slug":"dallas-police-to-give-update-on-deadly-shooting-involving-knife-wielding-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65559\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas police to give update on deadly shooting involving knife-wielding man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>DALLAS<\/strong> &#8211; Dallas police are expected to give an update and release video of officers shooting a man who they say refused to drop a knife.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">You can watch that news conference right here or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/fox-local\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FOX Local<\/a> beginning on Monday at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p> Dallas officer-involved shooting   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/C05CDF23D212943CA82AD7237D78046B.jpg\" alt=\"PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Dallas police on OIS\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-57dc2675=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/video\/1671724\" data-v-57dc2675=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Dallas police on OIS<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-57dc2675=\"\">The Dallas Police Department is investigating an officer-involved shooting that happened Wednesday morning in the 3000 block of Fairview Ave. in the Old East Dallas area.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The deadly encounter happened just before 10 a.m. on July 9.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Dallas police officers responded to a 911 call on Fairview Avenue regarding a man in the street with a long knife.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The armed suspect was reportedly kicking the door of a residence and putting the knife to his neck.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Police said when the officers arrived, they gave him loud verbal commands to drop the knife. But he did not drop it.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">That\u2019s when officers reportedly used less-lethal force. Police said it was unsuccessful, leading officers to give more loud verbal commands.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">At least one officer fired shots at the man after he allegedly advanced towards the officers.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">He was taken to the hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The man\u2019s knife was recovered, and no officers were injured.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The Dallas County District Attorney\u2019s Office will conduct its own separate investigation into the police shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this story was provided by the Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\/old-east-dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Old East Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; Dallas police are expected to give an update and release video of officers shooting a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,6082,1596,7290,50,38780,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-65559","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-old-east-dallas","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65559","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=65559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}