An El Centro College police officer was wounded in a shootout near a 7-Eleven store in downtown Dallas Thursday evening, according to authorities.
Dallas Area Rapid Transit officers were patrolling near the West End Station when shots rang out around 6:30 p.m. on North Austin Street, according to a DART spokesman.The El Centro campus is just across the street.
The El Centro officer and a suspect "were engaged in a disturbance regarding a vehicle," according to the Dallas Police Department.Then gunshots rang out -- striking both the officer and the suspect.
The DART officers found the wounded El Centro officer, who was taken to Baylor Hospital just up the road. He was in stable condition.
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