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Juan Mario Gonzalez
Age : 33
Gender : Male
Race : Latino/a/e
Date : 07/23/2022
Location : 2300 block of N Stemmons Freeway
City : Dallas
County : Dallas
State : Texas
Agency : Bedford PD
Officer(s) :Not Disclosed
Cause of Death : Gunshot
Event : Killed by police during traffic stop
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
On 07/23/2022, shortly before 2:00 a.m., a Bedford Police Department officer attempted to stop Juan Mario Gonzalez after observing him speeding on State Highway 183 and suspecting he was driving while intoxicated. Gonzalez continued driving away while the officer pursued him eastbound into Dallas. During the pursuit, investigators said Gonzalez fired multiple shots from his vehicle at the pursuing officer. Additional officers from the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas County Sheriff's Office responded to assist.
The pursuit ended in the 2300 block of North Stemmons Freeway after Gonzalez stopped his vehicle and got out armed with a handgun. According to investigators, he again fired at officers. A Bedford police officer returned fire, striking Gonzalez. A passenger, Richard Nicholas Flores, surrendered and was arrested. Investigators later alleged that Flores had also fired at officers during the incident and charged him with aggravated assault on a public servant.
Gonzalez was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. During the exchange of gunfire, an uninvolved motorist sitting in a vehicle behind police was struck by a stray bullet and critically injured. The Dallas Police Department Special Investigations Unit and the Dallas County District Attorney's Office investigated the shooting. Despite later searches, I found no public release identifying the Bedford officer who fired the fatal shots, no publicly reported prosecutorial findings, and no publicly reported civil lawsuit filed by Gonzalez's family.
