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Name Not Disclosed

Age :

Gender : Male

Race : Unknown

Date : 12/12/2022

Location : Interstate 20 near Main Street / 331 E. Camp Wisdom Road

City : Duncanville

County : Dallas

State : Texas

Agency : Duncanville Police Department

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Vehicle

Event : Pedestrian killed while fleeing police on foot

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

REASON FOR CHASE:
Pursuit during burglary.
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NARRATIVE:
On 12/12/2022, an unidentified man was killed after running from Duncanville police and attempting to cross Interstate 20 in Duncanville, Dallas County.
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At approximately 4:55 a.m., Duncanville police received a call concerning a business alarm at 331 E. Camp Wisdom Road. Dispatchers monitoring live surveillance footage told responding officers that a man wearing a blue hoodie was placing items into a backpack inside the business.
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As officers reached the front of the business, dispatch advised them that the man had just exited through the rear. Officers then saw a man wearing a blue hoodie and carrying a backpack running down an embankment toward Interstate 20.
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The man entered the interstate and attempted to cross the eastbound traffic lanes. Multiple vehicles struck him, killing him at the scene. Duncanville Fire Department personnel responded and pronounced him dead.
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The Dallas County Sheriff's Office investigated the fatal collision. The eastbound lanes of Interstate 20 were closed for more than four hours while investigators processed the scene.
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Contemporary FOX 4 reporting explicitly characterized the death as occurring while the man was trying to get away from police, while the Dallas Morning News' Spanish-language report likewise described him as being pursued by police in connection with the reported burglary.
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The official Duncanville account is slightly more precise and should control the narrative: officers arrived, saw the man running down the embankment toward I-20, and he was killed while attempting to cross the interstate. The sources do not establish that officers entered the freeway behind him before he was struck, so this should be documented as a foot-flight police encounter resulting in a vehicle death, rather than as a conventional vehicle pursuit.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.fox4news.com/news/i-20-police-chase-suspect-killed
https://www.focusdailynews.com/dallas-sheriffs-office-is-investigating-duncanville-fatality-on-i-20/