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Suspect shot by police near Love Field

06:44 PM CDT on Friday, July 18, 2008

By TIARA M. ELLIS / The Dallas Morning News

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Jason Whitely reports
July 18, 2008
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DALLAS — A 41-year-old Dallas man was hospitalized Friday night after being shot by police at the conclusion of a car chase through the Love Field area.

Dallas police were trying to arrest Joe David De La Garza for three outstanding felony warrants of deadly conduct from Grand Prairie, where he was accused of shooting at his ex-wife earlier this week, Dallas police spokesman Sgt. Gil Cerda said.

As De La Garza drove away from his house in the 2700 block of Kimsey Drive with his brother in the car, officers in two patrol cars followed for a short distance and then turned on their lights and sirens to stop the vehicle about 5 p.m.

De La Garza drove erratically through a construction area and onto railroad tracks in the 2700 block of Bombay Avenue. His car stopped and his brother jumped out. De La Garza shot at the police vehicles, striking the front windshield and driver's side window of a patrol car, Sgt. Cerda said.

Police then shot at De La Garza, hitting him. He was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was awaiting surgery Friday night, Sgt. Cerda said.

No officers were injured.

De La Garza has been charged with evading arrest and two counts of assault on a police officer.

Police were still investigating the shooting, Sgt. Cerda said, but he expected the officer or officers who shot De La Garza to be placed on routine administrative leave during the investigation.