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An illegal alien is accused of shooting an officer with the Dallas Independent School District (ISD) Police Department who had given him a ride, an affidavit alleges.
On August 6, Dallas ISD police officer Justin Jones, a 16-year veteran of the force, received a call about a man walking on the median of a nearby highway. The man, identified as Jose Pantoja-Morales, got into Jones’s patrol vehicle after the officer offered him a ride to a nearby Walmart.
Jones said he noticed Pantoja-Morales pulling items out of a bag and stopped the vehicle. Jones then took Pantoja-Morales out of the vehicle and tried to turn his face toward the vehicle, but Pantoja-Morales began resisting, and the two ended up on the ground in a struggle.
That is when police allege that Pantoja-Morales pulled Jones’s gun off his person and shot the officer in the leg, striking his femoral artery. Pantoja-Morales subsequently fled the scene and was arrested following a police chase.
Jones had to undergo immediate surgery to save his life. Pantoja-Morales, charged with aggravated assault on a public servant, faces an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer while in jail.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at [email protected].
