About two minutes after urging for backup to arrive, the officer was successfully able to take down the shooter, telling his colleagues: “I got him down.”
A police spokesperson said 911 calls are still going through despite the loss of the computer-aided dispatch system. The information is handwritten, then dispatched over the radio.
"God wasn t ready for two warriors that night, and they did their duty in the face of evil," said Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia during a news conference on Monday.
DPD says the wounded officer was shot in the leg and shoulder around 12:30 a.m. while confronting a suspect in a domestic shooting that wounded two people.