Dallas police release body-camera footage after Canton Street shooting; five injured, 19-year-old shot by officer

Deputy Chief William Griffith of the Dallas Police Criminal Investigations Group briefed the public on July 5, 2025, saying officers responded at about 2:25 a.m. after being flagged down for a person suffering multiple gunshot wounds in the 2600 block of Canton Street. "This is the third Dallas police officer involved shooting in 2025," Griffith said as he summarized the preliminary investigation.

Griffith said while officers were rendering aid they heard additional gunfire from just south of their location. Officers found another wounded person in a nearby parking lot; two officers remained with that victim while Officer Louis Garza Fuentes and another officer approached and saw 19-year-old Tevin Valentine standing over a complainant with a gun. "Both officers gave loud, verbal commands to Valentine to put down his gun, but he refused and began to run," Griffith said. "Officer Garza Fuentes then fired 1 round from his patrol rifle, hitting Valentine and causing him to fall to the ground and drop the gun."

The department said officers immediately began emergency medical treatment on Valentine and additional responding officers began CPR on at least one complainant. All three initially mentioned victims and Valentine were transported to local hospitals; the department later reported that a total of five gunshot victims arrived at hospitals by unknown means. The department said Valentine suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Multiple firearms were recovered at the scene, and the gun Valentine was holding had been reported stolen out of the City of University Park in 2022.

Griffith said the Dallas Police Special Investigations Unit is conducting the ongoing investigation. "The Dallas County District Attorney's Office was notified, responded, and will conduct their own investigation," he said, adding that the Office of Community Police Oversight had been briefed. "To be transparent, the Dallas Police Department is releasing the body worn camera footage of this incident," Griffith said.

Audio from body-worn cameras and on-scene recordings captured officers repeatedly commanding an armed person to drop the weapon and ordering bystanders to clear the area. An unidentified officer on the audio can be heard saying, "Put the gun down," and other officers can be heard telling people to "Back up" and to "Secure these guns." The department said no officers were injured.

The Dallas County District Attorney's Office and the department's Special Investigations Unit will continue probes; officials did not provide a timeline for completion or say whether disciplinary action or charges will follow. The department reported the location as the 2600 block of Canton Street and the chase path toward Good Latimer Expressway; how the other victims arrived at hospitals was described as "unknown."