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Bosonic

(3,746 posts)
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 03:29 AM Jun 2015

Suspect in standoff after gunfire at DPD HQ

Source: ABC

DALLAS – Police say a suspect or suspects opened fire on Dallas Police headquarters in downtown Dallas before leading police on a chase and is now in a standoff with Dallas SWAT officers.

Gunfire was reported just after midnight Saturday outside the Dallas Police Department headquarters in the 1400 block of South Lamar.

Police are now evacuating South Side on Lamar because four suspicious bags were left near Dallas police headquarters. At least one of those bags has been confirmed to contain one or more pipe bombs, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said.

According to News 8's Rebecca Lopez, police sources say a suspect fired numerous shots at DPD headquarters from what appeared to be an armored van then led officers on a chase.

Read more: http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/crime/2015/06/13/updates-gunfire-reported-at-dallas-police-headquarters/71165792/



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Suspect in standoff after gunfire at DPD HQ (Original Post) Bosonic Jun 2015 OP
Van looks like this one sold on ebay June 7, Georgia. greyl Jun 2015 #1
Good eye, greyl! bigworld Jun 2015 #4
After seeing pics of the van in question, I believe it's the same van Cooley Hurd Jun 2015 #16
blow it up! heaven05 Jun 2015 #27
Started a thread in the Texas Group TexasTowelie Jun 2015 #2
aggrieved sovereign citizen? annabanana Jun 2015 #3
You've found your answer. bigworld Jun 2015 #5
Could it be this guy? csziggy Jun 2015 #13
Worst A-Team ever! nt MrScorpio Jun 2015 #6
These guys would agree! BumRushDaShow Jun 2015 #12
Let the Internet speculation about the ethnicity, religion and political geek tragedy Jun 2015 #7
Standard issue crazy white guy with access to weapons bigworld Jun 2015 #8
Oh damn, that blows that plan.... Novara Jun 2015 #10
Or if people in middle eastern attire were to walk around armed like these "open carry" dudes.... bigworld Jun 2015 #11
It is all but impossible to get a legally-purchased automatic weapon. loooneranger Jun 2015 #18
This message was self-deleted by its author Novara Jun 2015 #9
Livestream from CH 5 News in Dallas brooklynite Jun 2015 #14
Update on the suspect brooklynite Jun 2015 #15
In other words..... Novara Jun 2015 #20
Never fear: Gov. Abbott is signing Open Carry/Campus Carry into law, today. Paladin Jun 2015 #17
And that has what to do with this incident? GGJohn Jun 2015 #19
You need to work on your irony appreciation skills. Paladin Jun 2015 #21
So says the one who posts comments that have nothing to do with the thread. eom. GGJohn Jun 2015 #22
That's what I get for trying to help. Paladin Jun 2015 #23
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you here, GGJohn Jun 2015 #24
Explosives, automatic weapons, armored vehicle, attacking police...is it terrorism yet? KeepItReal Jun 2015 #25
Silly, it's only terrorism if he's brown-skinned Novara Jun 2015 #26
IKR! This dude went to war with the Dallas PD. KeepItReal Jun 2015 #29
Gunman who opened fire at Dallas police headquarters is dead, authorities say muriel_volestrangler Jun 2015 #28

greyl

(22,990 posts)
1. Van looks like this one sold on ebay June 7, Georgia.
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 04:14 AM
Jun 2015
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ford-E-Series-Van-3-door-/151696464938

Aftermarket Additions: Gun Ports, Tactical Step Boards
Armor Plating: Lenco Certified Mil-Spec Armor, Interior Armor
Reinforcements: interior armor, reinforced bumper steel tubing
 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
16. After seeing pics of the van in question, I believe it's the same van
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 09:37 AM
Jun 2015

It looks like a one (or two)-off customization, so it might very well be the same van sold last week.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
27. blow it up!
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 12:02 PM
Jun 2015

all that armor means nothing when the right amount of concussive power is applied via explosives. If these were POC, they would have been nuked by now.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
13. Could it be this guy?
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 08:30 AM
Jun 2015
Paris Police Department is looking for an individual who is armed and considered dangerous. (He was caught)

James Lance Boulware is a 33-year-old white man, with strawberry blond hair 6’2, and 240 lbs. He may be driving a dark gray Toyota Prius 4 door hatch back with Texas registration LNG-825. Boulware actually lives in the Dallas area, but has ties to the Paris area.

Police say Boulware was involved in a disturbance in the Dallas area, traveled to a relative’s home in Red River County, was involved in a disturbance there and came back to a residence in Paris. It has been reported that while at the Paris residence, he took several firearms, ammo and body armor.

Family members talked with him late yesterday afternoon and advised this was a ‘face time’ call on a wi-fi network in the Bonham area. During that call, he made a threat to kill all adult members of his family, along with a vague threat about schools or churches along the way.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=539821476059928&id=235742913134454


Update with news link:

Paris Police: "Armed & dangerous" man in custody
Updated: Wed 3:52 PM, May 01, 2013
By: News 12 Staff Email

The Paris Police Department says a man considered armed and considered dangerous after he obtained firearms, ammo, and body armor and then threatened violence against his family, churches, and schools has been apprehended by sheriff

12:30pm UPDATE:
The Paris Police Department says a man considered armed and considered dangerous after he obtained firearms, ammo, and body armor and then threatened violence against his family, churches, and schools has been apprehended by sheriff's deputies in Paris Wednesday morning.

Paris Police Chief Bob Hundley says the Lamar County Sheriff's Office took James Boulware into custody in the 1700 block of Lamar Avenue around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.

"At 11:24 A.M. on May 1, 2013, James Lance Boulware was observed leaving his residence in the 1300 block of Fairfax by a Lamar County Deputy. Boulware was followed until back up could arrive and stopped by Paris Police Officers along with the Lamar County Deputies in the 1900 block of Lamar Ave. where he was taken into custody without incident on two felony warrants out of Dallas County. Boulware was transported to the Lamar County Jail. No weapons were located in Boulware’s vehicle," Hundley said in a press release Wednesday afternoon.
http://www.kxii.com/home/headlines/Paris-Police-seek-armed--dangerous-man-205608221.html


If it is, and they caught him doing what is listed on this page - how is he out on the streets this soon?
 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
7. Let the Internet speculation about the ethnicity, religion and political
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 07:26 AM
Jun 2015

views of the perp(s) begin.

Novara

(5,844 posts)
10. Oh damn, that blows that plan....
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 07:42 AM
Jun 2015

I keep saying that if a lot of non-white people gain access to legally-purchased automatic and semiautomatic weapons and they threaten the cops, we'd be seeing some gun control.

bigworld

(1,807 posts)
11. Or if people in middle eastern attire were to walk around armed like these "open carry" dudes....
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 07:50 AM
Jun 2015
 

loooneranger

(34 posts)
18. It is all but impossible to get a legally-purchased automatic weapon.
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 10:36 AM
Jun 2015

Has been that way since the Hughes amendment in FOPA. I live in a rural southern state where there are tons of gun owners and have never seen an automatic weapon or knew of someone who owned one.

Response to geek tragedy (Reply #7)

brooklynite

(94,602 posts)
15. Update on the suspect
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 08:46 AM
Jun 2015

The man identified himself as James Boulware, 50, who has a history of family violence and blames authorities for his losing custody of his son, Dallas police Chief David Brown said.

Novara

(5,844 posts)
20. In other words.....
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 10:59 AM
Jun 2015
a history of family violence and blames authorities for his losing custody of his son,


In other words, a typical Butthurt White Christian Male with all the privileges and entitlement that status confers, as a poor aggrieved victim of the system.

Must be damn tough to be part of a cultural majority in America.

Paladin

(28,265 posts)
17. Never fear: Gov. Abbott is signing Open Carry/Campus Carry into law, today.
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 10:28 AM
Jun 2015

So this sort of inconvenient shit won't ever happen in Texas, again.

(Details in Texas group thread.)



Paladin

(28,265 posts)
21. You need to work on your irony appreciation skills.
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 11:19 AM
Jun 2015

It's a common problem amongst pro-gun militants, so you've got lots of company.

KeepItReal

(7,769 posts)
25. Explosives, automatic weapons, armored vehicle, attacking police...is it terrorism yet?
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 11:48 AM
Jun 2015

Nope.

Just some pissed off dude in Dallas.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,322 posts)
28. Gunman who opened fire at Dallas police headquarters is dead, authorities say
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 12:11 PM
Jun 2015
A lone gunman who opened fire at the Dallas police headquarters early Saturday, leading to a tense standoff that continued through the morning, has been killed by a police sniper, authorities say.

The suspect — who identified himself to police as 50-year-old James Boulware — was shot by a sniper at around 5 a.m. in a parking lot in the Dallas suburb of Hutchins, where he was holed up inside an armored van, Dallas Police Chief David O. Brown said at a news conference Saturday morning.

“At 5:07 a.m., our SWAT snipers shot at the suspect through the front windshield of the van, striking the suspect,” Brown told reporters. “Since that time, we have sent the bomb tech robot, that has a camera, to try and confirm whether the suspect is deceased.”

Brown said police are not approaching the vehicle until they can confirm it is not rigged with explosives. The suspect had told police negotiators that he had “C4? explosives in the van, he said

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/06/13/gunman-opens-fire-at-dallas-police-headquarters-leading-to-armed-standoff/
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