The Dallas police chief will give an update and release body camera video of a shooting earlier this week that injured three people, including an officer and a grandmother who claims she was trying to protect her grandson while he was having a mental episode.
The Dallas police chief will give an update and release body camera video of a shooting earlier this week that injured three people, including an officer and a grandmother who claims she was trying to protect her grandson while he was having a mental episode.
You can watch that news conference in the player above.On Monday night, Dallas officers responded to a call at Mill House Apartments on Woodhollow Drive in the city’s Red Bird neighborhood.Police said 18-year-old Tony Robinson had threatened people with a gun and was barricaded inside a bathroom. Robinson’s grandmother was also in the bathroom when police arrived. Tracey Thornton said her grandson was suicidal and had been arguing with his father. Family members called the police once they realized he had a gun, but they don’t allow firearms in the home."He was just mad at the world for no reason," Thornton told FOX 4's David Sentendrey. "Earlier in the day he just kept saying I want to die, I want to die, I don’t care if I live, I don’t care if I live."Police said there was an exchange of gunfire, and an officer was struck in their bulletproof vest. That officer is okay.Robinson was hit. He is still recovering from his wounds in the hospital.Thornton was also shot and treated for minor injuries. "I blocked him in the bathroom until the police came, and I told him he couldn’t move until the police came and got that gun because we don’t do guns in the house," Tracey continued. "When my grandson fell on the floor, I stepped over him to walk to my room and shots rang out again, and I got hit again in the crossfire,"Police have not yet said who fired first, how many shots were fired, or if any de-escalation attempts were made.
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