Freeway Shootout in Dallas Kills 3
Pastor Dale Morgan
Freeway Shootout in Dallas Kills 3*
Sunday August 12, 2007 5:16 PM
DALLAS (AP) - Two police officers responding to what they thought was a
wreck on a downtown freeway early Sunday were caught in a shootout that
killed three people and wounded a patrolman, authorities said.
Witnesses told investigators they stopped to help a motorist on the side
of Interstate 35 when someone inside the car shot at them, prompting
them to retrieve a gun from their own car and return fire before the
officers arrived, authorities said.
That's when officers spotted two people lying on the side of the road
and stopped to help, unaware of the shootout, police said. As one
officer aided a person on the ground, his partner, Senior Cpl. Jerry
Poston, was shot by someone from inside a nearby car.
``We do not know who shot who,'' Dallas police spokesman Vernon Hale
said in a statement. The officers said they did not shoot anyone, Hale said.
Poston, a 17-year veteran of the department, was hospitalized at
Methodist Central in serious condition, police said. His family asked
that no information about him be released, said Lynette Wilkinson, a
spokeswoman for Methodist Dallas Medical Center.
Poston's partner was not identified.
The suspect who shot Poston was among the three killed, investigators
said. It was unclear whether the suspect killed himself or someone else
shot him.
Police said they do not know the condition of a second person wounded in
the shootout.
Detectives have recovered a shotgun from the scene, police said.