[txtrucker79]

This happened in the dallas fort worth metroplex in texas. I remember hearing about it on the news being from texas. It was a hostage situation taking down fairly quickly

[Drastic85]

Notice the mobile watch tower in the background. The company I work for is quoting them right now for hunting use. They are also used on the US/Mexican border.

[OneSkiWonder]

Beautiful shot! I wonder how much time was spent prior to shooting trying to talk down the suspect, or what the circumstances were that made them go to lethal force so quickly.

[Buckafuffalo]

Nice shootin' Tex!

[txtrucker79]

Originally Posted by Drastic85 ↗

Notice the mobile watch tower in the background. The company I work for is quoting them right now for hunting use. They are also used on the US/Mexican border.

Yeah those watch towers are everywhere in big parking lots in dallas tx, especially the malls. They are owned by the police department.

[kellyhound]

An armed robber who took a woman hostage at a Dallas-area check-cashing store was fatally shot by police in a standoff captured on video.

Staff at Cash Store in Irving, Texas, set off an alarm around 1 p.m. Friday when Christopher Michael Dew, 29, tried to rob the business, according to the Irving Police Department.

The store on Esters Rd. near state highways 161 and 183 also got targeted earlier in January as police probe a string of burglaries at check-cashing stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

Cops said Dew grabbed a female employee and walked outside to the parking lot with her when they arrived at the scene. Two officers fired on him and killed him as he tried to force her into a car at gunpoint, according to police. The woman wasn’t injured in the standoff.

She could be seen hugging another woman afterward in a witness cellphone video verified by police and posted online.

“Oh my God! Oh God! Thank you, Jesus,” the woman said as she sank to the ground in the other woman’s embrace. The witness who shot the footage later walked over to capture the suspect’s bloodied body as he lay motionless between two cars.

Police said Dew, who was convicted of aggravated robbery in 2007, told the officers he would hurt the hostage if they approached him.

The graphic footage shows him getting shot in the head after turning away from two officers ordering him to drop the gun while pointing their weapons at him. He was addressing other officers at the scene when he got shot.

“The two officers were here quickly, within minutes and were able to engage the suspect. They couldn’t let him leave with the hostage,” Irving police spokesman James McLellan told. “By all appearances, this was the last resort for them.”

Irving police detectives, internal affairs officers and the public integrity unit of the Dallas County district attorney’s office are investigating the shooting.

Robbers also struck at Cash Store on Jan. 13 and roughly a dozen check-cashing stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since November, according to McLellan. Investigators haven't found any evidence linking Dew to the other burglaries, McLellan told.

"At this point there does not appear to be a connection to the previous robberies but that certainly could change as those investigations move forward," McLellan said in an email. "For now this robbery stands alone."

[OhJstFkOffAlrdy]

That noggin looks like it made for a nice wide target. Lights out, Megamind.

[Cerebral222]

Slo-mo & close up.

[Sharon]

"Oooooooh ooooooh oooooooh!"

[Steve]

There was no "back and to the left" with that shot, straight dropped him....

I wonder if momma has been on TV to say "They didn't have to shoot him, he was a nice quiet boy" yet.