Man Wanted for Impersonating an Officer Is Killed in a SWAT Standoff in the Children's Medical Center Garage
Dallas police say a fugitive-unit arrest attempt ended in a hospital parking garage, where a man wanted for impersonating a police officer barricaded himself in a vehicle, came out after tear gas pointing a gun at officers, and was shot dead. No officers were injured, and police have not formally released his name.
DALLAS — An overnight arrest attempt at Children's Medical Center Dallas ended with a man dead in the hospital's parking garage. According to FOX 4's reporting of the police account, officers with the Dallas Police Department's fugitive unit tracked a man they were investigating on an active warrant to the garage at around 11 p.m., where he barricaded himself inside a vehicle and a SWAT team responded.
Police deployed tear gas to force him out, Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux said in the account reported by FOX 4. The man exited the vehicle and pointed a gun at officers, and officers opened fire. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Comeaux said the man displayed the gun but did not fire it, and no officers were injured.
The warrant, according to the reports, was for impersonating a law enforcement officer: the man had claimed to be an officer while recruiting for a business that placed off-duty officers in security jobs, CBS News reported. Multiple local reports say he previously worked as part of U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett's security detail, and CBS News images appear to show him providing security at public events during her recent Senate primary run. Law-enforcement sources have identified him publicly by name, but authorities have not formally confirmed his identity, and this station is not publishing a name until police release one. There is no indication Crockett was linked to any wrongdoing, and her office had not commented in the reports read Wednesday morning.
The shooting is under investigation, as officer-involved shootings in Dallas are as a matter of course. What police have confirmed so far is narrow — a warrant, a garage, tear gas, a gun pointed at officers, and a death — and the fuller account of who the man was and how he came to be working security around a member of Congress rests, for now, on sourcing that officials have not yet put on the record.
