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The Dallas Independent School District is sharing more information about the police officer who was injured in a shooting on Thursday.Officer Justin JonesThe injured officer was identified as 39-year-old Justin Jones.Dallas ISD Police Chief Albert Martinez said he’s been with the department for the past 16 years and is currently assigned to White High School.He was featured in a FOX 4 news story in 2015 while training with the department on verbal tools to defuse confrontations. Jones is the officer wearing the red shirt with glasses in the video below.Critical InjuriesJones was shot on Thursday morning while trying to help someone who had been in crisis on the LBJ Freeway near Midway Road.Police said he brought the suspect to the Sam’s Club parking lot to get him off the freeway and away from danger. That’s when the shooting occurred. Jones was shot in the leg. Another officer who responded to the scene shortly afterward applied a life-saving tourniquet.He was said to be stable after
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The 15th Court of Appeals on Thursday said the State Fair of Texas' policy of prohibiting people from bringing firearms onto the fairgrounds was lawful and upheld an early ruling from a trial court.The state had argued that the policy violated a Texas law restricting local governments from limiting guns in most public places.The court ruled that state law only applied to government entities, not private organizations like the State Fair. Dallas has long held that they just lease the fairgrounds to the State Fair and that they have no role in the fair's policymaking. The city owns Fair Park, but leases it to the State Fair, which establishes and enforces its own set of rules.State Fair of Texas institutes gun banThe State Fair instituted the gun ban in 2024 after three people were injured in a shooting the previous year. The fair previously allowed attendees with valid handgun licenses to carry their weapon as long as it was concealed.Attorney General Ken Paxton sued to overturn the res
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Just days before a new middle school is set to open, Northwest ISD has filed a lawsuit against a nearby gun range after bullets were found in the school's facade.Northwest ISD sues gun rangeNorthwest ISD has filed a lawsuit requesting an injunction against Quail Creek Shooting Range, a gun range that sits 1.2 miles away from Barksdale Middle School.The district filed the lawsuit after finding two bullets in the school's south facade earlier this year. One was found on an exterior wall in May, and the second was found to have struck exterior glass in July.The side of the building where the bullets were found lines up with the gun range.Northwest ISD says it attempted to find an agreement for safety improvements with the gun range's owner, but was unable to get the owner to agree.In a statement, Barksdale Middle School's principal says the lawsuit is to implement safety measures rather than close the gun range.Barksdale Middle SchoolThe school where the bullets were found, Barksdale Midd
