GUNFIRE LEAVES ONE DEAD

Dallas police shot and killed an armed man at the Avondale Parc Apartments on Stone Canyon Road in September.

Police were responding to a car accident near the apartment complex just before midnight Sept. 21 when they received an unrelated call reporting gunfire in the complex.

Gerardo Ramirez, 24, had fired a pistol several times into the air, and neighbors called police. When officers ran toward him, he hid between two cars and began firing at them. Officers returned fire, and more than a dozen shots were heard. During the incident, Ramirez reloaded his weapon at least once.

Ramirez died at Presbyterian hospital, and no police officers were injured.

Ramirez’s girlfriend later told police that her boyfriend had been using drugs and was behaving erratically. She said he told her that he didn’t want to live anymore and that he wished to shoot police.

Ramirez had a criminal record that included drug possession and burglary. —Rachel

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74 body cameras issued to Dallas police officers

$3.7 million paid by the city for 400 cameras, storage and technical support — they are being rolled out incrementally to make sure the department can support the new technology

1,000 more cameras the department plans to acquire within the next few years

SOURCE Dallas Police Department