{"id":790330,"date":"2026-05-12T04:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/790330\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T04:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:57:18","slug":"dallas-city-council-seeks-crackdown-on-deep-ellum-violence-after-rash-of-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/790330\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas City Council seeks crackdown on Deep Ellum violence after rash of shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Brief<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<p>During a Dallas Public Safety Meeting on Monday, city council members called for a crackdown on business compliance permits in Deep Ellum.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<p>Three shootings last week in the popular Dallas district led to several hospitalizations and the death of a security guard.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<p>The concerns come as North Texas is just over a month away from an influx of visitors for this summer&#8217;s FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>DALLAS<\/strong> &#8211; A rash of gun violence in Deep Ellum has Dallas City Council members calling for stricter enforcement of restaurants in the popular district.<\/p>\n<p>Calls to action to stop Deep Ellum violence<\/p>\n<p><strong>What they&#8217;re saying<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m tired of having these meetings in cycles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At Monday&#8217;s Dallas Public Safety Meeting, Dallas Mayor pro tem Jesse Moreno said something must be done about the recent shooting in Deep Ellum ahead of the World Cup coming to town.<\/p>\n<p>Moreno and other Dallas leaders pointed to businesses that have Certificates of Occupancy to operate as restaurants, but function more like nightclubs without proper permits.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_fox_aggregated_articles_807\/204b2b2a0e0655b9e0b52582ba2264b5.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Other cities are shutting down water and putting chains on doors of operators not in compliance,&#8221; Moreno continued. &#8220;If the operator is operating with an improper CO, we go in and stop this before there is another murder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dallas City Council member Cara Mendelsohn agreed, and gave approval to city staff to move any resolution on the subject that needs full city council approval.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This weekend, get the inspectors out there, see if they have the appropriate CO. If they don&#8217;t, shut them down,&#8221; Mendelsohn said.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux suggested the city could require establishments to hire off-duty Dallas Police officers if they reach a certain number of customers.<\/p>\n<p>Shootings in Deep Ellum<\/p>\n<p><strong>The backstory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just last week, two shootings in Deep Ellum within two hours of each other left five people hospitalized and one person dead.<\/p>\n<p>A shooting around 10:30 p.m. on May 5 on Commerce Street resulted in five people being hospitalized. Police believe the incident began as an altercation between several people, with innocent bystanders injured in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_fox_aggregated_articles_807\/c1202529d8dcb1b19689040f42e5831e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Two hours later, police were alerted to a second shooting in the 2800 block of Elm Street.<\/p>\n<p>23-year-old Detorious Tarver was arrested and charged with murder after allegedly shooting 26-year-old security guard Joseph Gray, who was trying to break up a fight at the La Tardeada nightclub.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe Tarver pulled out a handgun and shot Gray at point-blank range. Other guards tackled Tarver after the shooting and handcuffed him until police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>La Tardeada has temporarily <a data-ylk=\"slk:suspended operations;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/deep-ellum-bar-suspends-operations-022742748.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suspended operations<\/a> as it allows police to continue their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A third shooting days before the previous incidents led to another hospitalization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Source<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Information in this story comes from a Dallas City Council meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief During a Dallas Public Safety Meeting on Monday, city council members called for a crackdown on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":790331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,132893,1596,14840,14842,24726,114024,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-790330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city-council-members","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-city-council","12":"tag-dallas-police","13":"tag-deep-ellum","14":"tag-jesse-moreno","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116559836013074945","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790330","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=790330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}