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One man dead following gun battle in southwest Dallas
A masked man was found dead late Wednesday at the front door of a home after gunfire rattled a neighborhood in the Red Bird area of southwest Dallas, police said.
Police believe the victim was killed while trying to break into the home, about 11:30 p.m. in the 2700 block of Bridal Wreath Lane, said Sgt. Eddie Douglas, homicide detective.
The neighborhood is just north of Dallas Executive Airport, formally called Red Bird Airport.
The front door of the home appeared to have been smashed, possibly by someone's foot, but the robbers were met by gunfire, Douglass said.
The victim, an unidentified Hispanic man in his 20s, was fatally shot in the foyer, but the violence didn't stop there.
He wore a mask and gloves, according to a news release from Sgt. Warren Mitchell, police spokesman. Officers on Thursday were trying to determine his identity.
"We believe (the dead man) had some accomplices, but we don't have those people either," Douglas said. "The main evidence is a bunch of spent cartridges across the lawn and into the street for about half a block."
He said that the spent cases were of various calibers, which suggested that more than one weapon was fired, and by more than one person.
But whoever lived at the home was nowhere to be found as police investigated the crime scene, Douglas said.
"Apparently those people have something to hide too," Douglas said. "It's unusual for a person to abandon a house like that and not even contact us. We don't know if there were warrants or what the situation was.
"We're still sorting things out."
One man dead following gun battle in southwest Dallas
A masked man was found dead late Wednesday at the front door of a home after gunfire rattled a neighborhood in the Red Bird area of southwest Dallas, police said.
Police believe the victim was killed while trying to break into the home, about 11:30 p.m. in the 2700 block of Bridal Wreath Lane, said Sgt. Eddie Douglas, homicide detective.
The neighborhood is just north of Dallas Executive Airport, formally called Red Bird Airport.
The front door of the home appeared to have been smashed, possibly by someone's foot, but the robbers were met by gunfire, Douglass said.
The victim, an unidentified Hispanic man in his 20s, was fatally shot in the foyer, but the violence didn't stop there.
He wore a mask and gloves, according to a news release from Sgt. Warren Mitchell, police spokesman. Officers on Thursday were trying to determine his identity.
"We believe (the dead man) had some accomplices, but we don't have those people either," Douglas said. "The main evidence is a bunch of spent cartridges across the lawn and into the street for about half a block."
He said that the spent cases were of various calibers, which suggested that more than one weapon was fired, and by more than one person.
But whoever lived at the home was nowhere to be found as police investigated the crime scene, Douglas said.
"Apparently those people have something to hide too," Douglas said. "It's unusual for a person to abandon a house like that and not even contact us. We don't know if there were warrants or what the situation was.
"We're still sorting things out."
