Dallas (WBAP/KLIF News) – Ft. Worth police officers looking for a man wanted for car theft and assault instead find themselves in a shots fired situation. Sergeant Marc Povero says officers went to the house on Haltom Road, thinking the suspect was there.
“When our officers arrived, they contacted two people that came to the door,” said Povero. “Those two people said the person they were looking for wasn’t there. So as they were talking to these two individuals, they heard gunfire from inside the house.”
They pulled back and called in the Special Response Team and SWAT. SWAT formed a perimeter but didn’t go inside, as a fire had broken out.
Meanwhile, an armed man tried to run from the house. He was shot with a non-lethal 40mm foam round…he wasn’t hurt, but was taken to the hospital to be checked out. Firefighters arrived, and were escorted by SWAT members as they got control of the fire. The firefighters were wearing body armor due to the gunfire.
After bringing the fire under control, investigators sifted through the debris of the house, thinking one person may not have gotten out of the house in time. Povero couldn’t say whether that person was the man for whom the warrants had been taken out.
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