{"id":987167,"date":"2026-08-07T17:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/987167\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:17:27","slug":"what-to-know-about-fridays-officer-involved-shooting-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/987167\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about Friday’s officer-involved shooting in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Police Department<\/a> officers responded to a call around\u00a07 a.m. in the 8500 block of Park Lane. When they arrived, officers\u00a0found suspect\u00a0Isodoro Melo-Munoz, 37, on top of a woman, holding her at knife point. He stabbed the woman before fleeing the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a news conference, Assistant Chief of Police Terrence Rhodes said police ordered Melo-Munoz to drop the knife, and when he refused,\u00a0officers shot at him. Melo-Munez then fled the scene; it was unclear if he was injured.<\/p>\n

As of 10:45 a.m., police are still searching for Melo-Munoz. DPD is asking the public to immediately call 911 if they see the suspect, describing him as a Hispanic male who is about 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 140 pounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The woman who was stabbed was immediately taken to a hospital, but her condition is now stable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to a DPD post on X, no officers were injured in the shooting. The post did not specify whether Melo-Munoz was shot or injured.<\/p>\n

This isn’t Melo-Munoz’s first run-in with the law.<\/p>\n

According to Dallas County court records,\u00a0Melo-Munoz was charged for driving while intoxicated in 2021. He served three days in jail after he was convicted in 2023.<\/p>\n

While court records state Melo-Munoz was born in Mexico, he also has a Dallas address less than a mile from the scene of the stabbing.<\/p>\n

There have been three officer-involved shootings in northern Dallas this week \u2014 two on Thursday morning<\/a>, in addition to this Friday morning incident.<\/p>\n

The first shooting took place around 9:20 a.m. on Thursday morning, where an officer fired his gun<\/a> at an armed robbery suspect in\u00a0Melshire Estates.\u00a0DPD officials said the officer fired at a suspect after a 20-mile pursuit, where the suspect drove a stolen vehicle from Oak Cliff to northwest Dallas. No one was injured in the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ninety minutes later, police responded to a second incident when gunfire erupted at a Sam’s Club less than three miles away. A suspect, who has not been identified by DPD, shot Dallas Independent School District officer Justin Jones<\/a>, 39, in the torso. According to DPD Chief Daniel Comeaux, Jones drove the man to the parking lot after he was spotted walking on the highway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The suspect has since been taken into custody. Jones was rushed to Parkland hospital for emergency surgery. His condition is now listed as stable, according to the department.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Police Department officers responded to a call around\u00a07 a.m. in the 8500 block of Park Lane. When…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":987168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,358,10928,328184,290169,326777,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-987167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-dallas","tag-texas","tag-things-to-know","tag-tp-dallas-police","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-dallas-county","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117055366531127815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987167","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=987167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}