Dallas Shooting: Dallas ISD officer wounded in Sam's Club parking lot

DALLAS - A Dallas ISD police officer was shot while trying to help someone near the Walmart and Sam’s Club stores in Northwest Dallas on Thursday morning.

Dallas Police Shooting

What we know:

The officer-involved shooting happened around 11 a.m. outside the shopping center off the LBJ Freeway near Midway Road. There are Walmart and Sam’s Club stores in that area.

Images from SKY 4 showed dozens of police vehicles from multiple agencies in the store parking lot and in the alleyways near the scene. Crime scene tape surrounded a police vehicle and blood stains.

Dallas ISD Police Chief Albert Martinez confirmed the injured officer is one of his officers – 39-year-old Officer Justin Jones, who is assigned to White High School and has been with the department for 16 years.

Officer Jones was flagged down and intercepted someone who was in crisis on the freeway. He took that person to the parking lot to get him off the freeway and out of danger and that's when the shooting occurred.

The officer was taken to Parkland Hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg. He is currently in surgery, the chief said.

A possible suspect was taken into custody.

What we don't know:

Officials have not yet released any information about the suspect's identity.

This shooting does not appear to be related to another officer-involved shooting that happened around the same time just a few miles away in a North Dallas neighborhood, but FOX 4 is still working to get clarification.

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