DALLAS — Dallas police released body camera video Monday from a police shooting at a North Dallas apartment complex Thursday that showed the moment a stolen GMC Tahoe rammed into a police car.
Undercover officers began tracking the GMC, which had been reported stolen from Frisco earlier this month, to the apartment complex in the 9600 block of Golf Lakes Trail off Walnut Hill Lane and U.S. 75 shortly before 1:30 p.m. Thursday, police said.
The officers found the vehicle backed into a parking space at the apartment complex with four people inside and then called for uniformed officers, Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said in a press conference Monday.
When the driver of the vehicle, identified as Damon Price, 21, saw the squad car, they accelerated and rammed into a police Dodge Charger, driving over the hood, and hitting the left driver’s side of another marked Dallas Police Chevrolet Tahoe, Garcia said. The video showed the GMC then rolled backward off the Charger and stopped.
Garcia said Price, 19-year-old Deantae Moore, 17-year-old Eric Lampkin-Scarborough, and an unknown male suspect then got out of the truck, police say. Price and the unknown male ran from the scene.
Dallas Police Officer Travis Marks, who was in the driver’s seat of a marked police unit, fired at Lampkin-Scarborough, who was masked and armed with a handgun modified with an extended magazine and switch, hitting him, Garcia said.
Lampkin-Scarborough continued running south through the apartment complex with the handgun, where he encountered Officer Timothy Steed, who fired four times, but didn’t hit him, Garcia said.
Lampkin-Scarborough was taken into custody on the west side of the apartment complex and officers administered first aid until he was taken to a local hospital, police say. Lampkin-Scarborough was last listed in stable condition, officials say. He's expected to be charged with prohibited weapon and evading detention on foot, according to police.
Price was also taken into custody and taken to a local hospital after complaining of chest pain, Garcia said. Price was subsequently charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, two counts of aggravated assault of a public servant, evading detention on foot, and a probation violation for manufacturing or delivery of a controlled substance, police say.
Moore, who was found to have a warrant for murder in connection with a deadly double shooting in March, in which 18-year-old Camren Stacy and Kamari Smith-Capps were found fatally shot outside a vehicle in the 3800 block of Dixon Avenue in Dallas, was taken to police headquarters for questioning, Garcia said. Moore was subsequently charged with murder for the homicide of Dixon.
Police are still working to identify the fourth suspect who fled the scene.
Police say four weapons were recovered from the scene – two fell from the GMC, one was found along the path Lampkin-Scarborough ran, and a fourth in the truck during a search.
The gun Lampkin-Scarborough carried was modified with an extended magazine and switch and was reported stolen from Dallas, the three recovered in or near the truck, included a handgun that was modified with an extended magazine that’d been reported stolen from Shreveport, an AR-style pistol, and another handgun with an extended magazine that was reported stolen from Waxahachie, Garcia said.
"From what was a stolen vehicle off a Flock hit, turns into four armed suspects, three out of four firearms being stolen, an individual with a capital murder charge and masked individuals," said Garcia. "There was something much more nefarious that was going to happen that day and someone's life was saved because of the actions of these officers."
The Dallas Police Special Investigations unit is still investigating the incident and the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office is also conducting its own investigation into the incident. The shooting marks the fourth shooting involving a Dallas police officer this past year.