Lake June Rd.
This is in the South East Dallas area.
I can tell you right now that this
is the second vehicle that has been
in pursuit and right now as you can tell,
we've got HD chopper eight over this truck.
OK. We are understanding that this updated
location right now you can see this,
this truck is going through
some intersections right now,
eastbound Elam at Prairie Creek,
that is the location we
understand right now we've got
HD chopper eight over this truck.
Rebecca, tell us what you
know about this pursuit.
So this started
actually in the South Central Patrol
division according to some of my sources.
This was what is called a
tactical apprehension attempt,
which to me I believe then that.
It was the SWAT team or some
sort of high risk stop.
So they were trying to take somebody in.
There are now in Saint Augustine but
they were passing Saint Augustine but
they were initially trying to pull
this person over and remember DPD
only chases for violent felonies.
There was at one point when the
car before this that they were
in was going the wrong direction.
They initially did have patrol
units chasing the vehicles,
but when it got too dangerous was when
they were going the wrong direction.
On the freeway DPD general orders
prohibit that from happening.
You cannot chase going the wrong direction.
So now what I'm told is they only have
air one up above this vehicle and also
we have they have DPD has undercover
covert units trying to follow this car.
They will not chase with license
sirens because at this point
because they felt that it was too
dangerous when this these people
were going the wrong direction.
So right now, OK again updated
location for you eastbound Elam.
Approaching Peach street.
Peach tree, pardon me and the reason by
the way we are bringing this to you live
right now is because as you can tell
this area is nearby residential area.
There are businesses here.
Look, school is letting out at this hour.
So if you are anywhere near
the southeast to Dallas area,
please be aware of this.
I am so glad to see that some of these
cars are stopped and are slowing down
and stopping as this truck is weaving
in and out of this area and that's
why you're not seeing the lights and sirens.
Because when they, when they feel that it
is too dangerous and you have patrol units,
it the the suspects that they are
chasing tend to speed up and go faster.
So that's why right now they're
going to follow this vehicle with
only air one and some covert units.
But again, this actually started in
the South Central Patrol Division,
wound its way through SE and they were trying
to make some sort of tactical apprehension.
So this must be a person that had
some sort of violent felony warrant
that they were trying to pull over.
I'm texting with my sources.
Right now they haven't told me like who
the person was that they were chasing,
but clearly it became very dangerous,
Sonya, because before we went on
the air you could see the other
vehicle before they changed vehicles,
going the wrong direction at a high rate
of speed and almost hitting people head on.
You can see now that they
pulled over and stopped.
OK, he's boxed in right now.
It appears this is.
Tell me one more time, Ryan.
We're getting an updated
location for you.
Eastbound Elam Rd.
At 6:35 Balch springs. OK.
And you can see he's doing
wow his best to get around
this at this point.
And you
can bet that there are going to be
some DPD squad cars soon approaching.
I mean, they are. They do.
He just got those power lines. He.
Yeah. OK, let's hit those power lines.
Yeah, this is now southbound 635 from Elam.
And as Rebecca was alluding to,
this is the second vehicle that this person,
and we don't know anything about
the person in this vehicle, right.
This is the second vehicle
that has been on the move.
So this started about 1/2 hour ago
near I-45 in that SE Dallas area.
The driver was seen going
the wrong way on CF Hawn.
The freeway.
And again that at that time this all
started in a maroon pickup truck that
may have been stolen at some point.
There was a switch, yeah.
So got out of that truck and
then now into this one.
And so that is when you saw,
you initially did see lights and sirens.
Now remember,
we're in a little bit of a delay here.
So when we're talking to you,
you might not be seeing the same
thing that we're talking about,
just a slight delay.
But I will tell you that
initially you did have DSO,
Dallas County Sheriff and also DPD.
Chasing and that was very
dangerous when the person started
going the wrong direction.
So it is up to the supervisors on
the scene to either keep chasing
or call off the call off the chase.
So they decided to pull off
all the marked units.
They just thought it was too dangerous.
It's against their general orders
to chase going the wrong direction.
And then we saw them get into this
vehicle and now they are only following
with air one and some covert units.
You can bet that there are going to
be some DPD units around somewhere
that hopefully will eventually.
Pull them over.
OK. Alright, yeah again we
are just is, Rebecca said.
We are in a slight delay,
but right now what we are seeing
is that he is going or this driver
is going the wrong way on I-20.
Yes. And again, so dangerous.
That's why you only see air one
and you do not see any marked
units behind this vehicle.
And I'm trying to determine
or find out from some of my
sources who this person is.
Clearly this is someone that was
wanted from some sort of violent
felony because it did start off as
some sort of tactical apprehension
in the South Central Patrol division
and then has made its way now
through SE and and he is looks like
he's exiting the office Seagoville.
Exiting Seagoville Road,
and as Rebecca mentioned, again,
this has been going on for about at
least 1/2 hour that we can tell.
We don't know if there's only
one driver in this vehicle or if
there are any passengers and what
the circumstances might have been
to have led up to this pursuit.
We do understand that law
enforcement is on top of it,
but for the reasons that Rebecca mentioned,
they are not using lights and sirens
in order to chase this driver.
What's really scary is that when
this driver was trying to get away,
when he was boxed in,
it looked like he hit some power lines.
OK, now he's going through
some sort of field and.
He's probably gonna get stuck
in the field. Looks very confused
or or just uncertain about
which way to go at this point.
Yeah, so it looks like they're
going to bail out perhaps at
now they're still going OK,
they're still going out in
the other direction, Sonya.
And again this is a very dangerous
situation is why you don't see the Dallas
police marked units like you would
typically see in a chase because they,
some a supervisor had to make the decision
not to continue pursue the original vehicle.
Before they got into this one,
that was going the wrong direction.
That is very dangerous.
There have been police officers
injured that way and also civilians.
So they are trying to avoid any
catastrophic injury to any of the public.
So now they're he's getting back on the road.
And again right now we know that air
One Dallas police is helicopter unit is
following as well as some covert units.
But you do not see the officers with
lights and sirens is just simply too
dangerous right now to chase and they do
not want to put anyone in the public at risk.
And you have to kind of go inside
the mind of someone who is making
these very quick moves or try to.
Obviously the driver knew he was
going the wrong, he or she was going
the wrong way at at a certain point,
then went out into a field and now
again has come back onto the road.
This is westbound I-20 going the
right direction at this point,
but still around other vehicles and
on the shoulder, off and on of I-20,
again, westbound.
I-20 near Balch Springs is what we're
looking at right now from HD Chopper eight.
Yeah and I I wish we could see what
was happening when those when he hit
those down power lines but obviously
we had to stay with the pursuit.
But that was very dangerous for those
drivers that it looked like some of those
power lines when he hit him actually
fell on top of one of the vehicles.
And so again a very dangerous situation.
They probably at this point are going
to try to get in front of this vehicle.
This is what I've seen in in and they're
probably going to at this point.
Also call in help from mutual aid from
other people like DSO DPS and start
trying to see if they can block off
some of these exits when they're on the
freeway or bring out some stop sticks.
Although I will say this,
some people might say, well I haven't,
they thrown out stop sticks.
Yeah, they don't use stop sticks in Dallas.
DPD doesn't even train with them anymore
because they are very dangerous.
But the DPS does and DSO does,
but DPD does not.
Now he's going back to the wrong direction.
Very dangerous situation here for
drivers who may encounter this truck.
OK, it sounds like there are
marked DBT DPD vehicles following
the driver of this truck.
Who is going the wrong way?
Again, this is on I-20. Oh my gosh,
weaving in and out of traffic.
OK he's going east in the westbound lanes.
This is I-20 at Seagoville
Road and again you know,
3:00 o'clock in the afternoon,
Rebecca this is almost rush hour but
this is really the time when a lot of
people start getting on the road to
pick up their children from work and
start moving from point A to point B,
you know, the beginning of their
day to the to the evening hours.
And so not that there is any good time
for something like this to happen but
to me this is just an awful time of
day to be on the road right now and
potentially encounter someone like this
and. Tonya, apparently there were two
people that got out of that other vehicle.
So we do think that there
are two people in this car.
And again, this started in the South
Central Patrol division is when
I'm being told by sources and then
it became really dangerous when
they got on to those of, you know,
obviously going to the wrong,
wrong direction.
So what you're going to see now is
air one over this and continuing to
follow this person when they did.
When they do a tactical apprehension,
it is a dangerous person that they
believe that they are following.
They do what they call felony stops.
And apparently this person took off and
wanted for some sort of very violent offense.
And now he's going again into a field,
kind of off roading.
Yeah.
And so air one again will stay
with this person and these drivers.
I'm trying to get more information
from some of my sources to see what
it is that they are wanted for.
OK, it looks like there are two
passengers who at this point are staying
in this fielded area but have bailed
and are now running through the woods.
It looks like two men and police,
we understand, are. Yeah, yeah.
They're chasing them.
There's a woman that looks like a woman
running the. I don't know if
she got out of the vehicle.
I mean, obviously,
because this is because CDPD now.
Yeah, in pursuit.
And on a on a foot pursuit,
you really can't see because
they're in this wooded area.
This is very dangerous for.
The officers involved because again,
I was told that this started
off as a tactical apprehension,
which means that they were looking
for someone that was wanted for
some sort of dangerous or violent
felony and so very dangerous.
You see more officers now coming
out here to see if they can
apprehend these two suspects.
And what is the strategy, Rebecca?
When they are approaching these
suspects in an area like this,
they don't really know
what they're up against.
It didn't look like the men were
carrying anything that we saw
when they bailed from the truck.
But when they encounter these people and
they're potentially violent criminals,
what exactly is their strategy
when they come up on that?
They still have to take all the precautions.
There were officers that were shot at
and shot actually in foot pursuit.
So David Brown I believe was the police
chief at the time when he changed the
foot pursuit policy so that it would
not be at so dangerous for officers.
So if you if the officer feels
like they are putting themselves
in danger then they will back off.
As well and hopefully they hope that air
one can pick them up somewhere and then
they can continue to to pursue them.
But there there is a policy just like
there is a chase policy on perceives
when you're when you're driving and
and you're following them in a vehicle
they also have a foot chase policy so
as not to endanger any of the officers
lives and you see more looks like
more arriving these arriving there.
You've zoomed out a little bit to try
to give you a visual of where this is.
This is just off of I-20,
where that driver had been going
eastbound and then westbound and circling
off and on the feeder road and then
also in and out of various fields.
It looked like he had gone through
several residential neighborhoods,
tons of businesses nearby as well.
And so eventually about,
gosh, 45 minutes later,
ended up bailing 2 men.
We saw jump out of this truck into this.
Thick area, wooded area,
and they have been tailed
by police at this time
and it looks like they're setting
up some sort of perimeter.
They're going to have officers as
best they can around this area to
try to apprehend these two suspects.
And so right now what we saw were two
officers that got out of the vehicle
and then started chasing them on foot.
But again, if it gets too
dangerous even for the officers,
there are some guidelines and
some protocols and actually
general orders that they have to.
Follow so as not to put
themselves in jeopardy,
OK, because we can't quite see at
this point what exactly is going on.
Rebecca will continue to follow the
developments through her sources and
we are glad to report at this point
that it looks like those suspects
have exited the main roads in our
area and they are no longer a danger
to drivers who are out and about
moving from point A to point B.
We're going to have an update for you
on this and a whole lot more coming up.
On WFA news at four,
that starts in about 40 minutes,
45 minutes.
We'll see you then.