DALLAS, POLICE INVOLVED SHOOTING MAN DIES, MICHAEL SHIRLEY

CITY: DALLAS
EVENT: POLICE CHASE AND SHOOTING
PERSONS: MICHAEL SHIRLEY, 55

BACK STORY

Just after midnight Sunday morning, covert officers with the Dallas Police reported seeing a stolen silver Cadillac SUV with paper tags near Barnes Ridge Road and El Capitan and called for uniformed officers to make a traffic stop.

Chief of Police Eddie Garcia said Tuesday that officers had tried to pull over the same SUV two days before, on Sept. 22, though it had a different paper tag on it at the time. In that instance, the driver refused to pull over and officers did not pursue.

When uniformed officers got close to the driver early Sunday, police said he was ordered to stop as he walked down a sidewalk and show his hands and instead, he pulled a gun out of a shoulder holster. Garcia identified the man Tuesday afternoon as 55-year-old Michael Shirley.

Garcia said Dallas Police Officer Vela fired at Shirley and that he returned fire as he ran back to the SUV. Garcia said Vela and Shirley continued to fire in each other's direction and that a covert officer also fired before Shirley got into the SUV and sped away.

After cutting through an apartment complex, Garcia said Shirley lost control of the SUV and flipped it over a curb.