Two Dallas police officers were critically wounded in a shooting that also injured a home improvement store employee, authorities said.
The shooting occurred about 4-15 p.m. on Tuesday as officers were escorting a man from the Home Depot in northern Dallas. The two officers and the store loss-prevention officer underwent surgery for their injuries, Police Chief U. Renee Hall said late on Tuesday night. She did not provide details of their conditions but asked for continued prayers for their recovery.
Police arrested Armando Luis Juarez, 29, on charges of aggravated assault on a police officer and felony theft. He was taken into custody shortly before 10 p.m. on Tuesday after a lengthy car chase involving officers of various law enforcement agencies.
“We got our man,” Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said at the late-night news conference.
Police officers run away from the emergency room to their cars at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas after a man shot two officers outside a Home Depot on April 24, 2018, in Dallas.
The two police officers were called to the store to help an off-duty officer with removing the man from the store.
In a tweet about the shooting on Tuesday evening, the Dallas Police Department said the officers were critically wounded, but Hall declined to go into detail about their conditions during two news conferences at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. She said surgery was completed on the police officers and store employee late on Tuesday at the hospital.
Mr. Rawlings said he continues “to be upset at the lack of respect for our police in this city and in our country.”
In 2016, four Dallas police officers and a transit officer were shot dead by a sniper in an ambush that came toward the end of a peaceful protest over the police killings of black men that had occurred in other cities.
