Dallas officer-involved shooting suspect turns himself in, police say
Stabbing suspect wanted after officer-involved shooting
Dallas police are searching for a suspect who allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend and fled after officers fired shots in his direction on Friday morning.
DALLAS - A suspect who allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend and fled after officers fired shots in his direction on Friday morning has turned himself in, police said Saturday.
What we know:
The officer-involved shooting happened around 7 a.m. at the Sunchase Park Apartments in the 8500 block of Park Lane.
Dallas police said officers were called to that area for a domestic disturbance. When they arrived, they saw 37-year-old Isidoro Melo-Munoz in the process of stabbing his ex-girlfriend.
Isidoro Melo-Munoz
Officers gave him commands to drop the knife, and police said one officer fired a shot at him.
The injured female was taken to the hospital with multiple stab wounds.
Family members identified her as Maria Santos Martinez. They said she had contacted the police about Melo-Munoz several times because he had been harassing her.
No officers were injured.
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What they're saying:
Neighbors recalled hearing the screams and the gunfire outside their apartments on Friday morning.
"I heard someone screaming," said Monica Milan, who lives nearby. "This guy was over there with her, and it looked like he was hugging her, but I didn't know. I didn't know he was stabbing her."
Milan said her son encouraged her not to get involved for her own safety. By the time she did, Melo-Munoz was already gone.
"So, I looked through the peephole, and I was like, 'I'm gonna go check.' And my son was like, 'No, don't go out there.' I said, 'No, we've got to go out there,'" she said. "It happened like, (snaps fingers) like this. Then the police came this way, but he was already gone."
She's hoping the victim is okay.
"She looked very hurt when they took her," she said.
What we don't know:
The current condition of the female victim is unknown.
The Source: The information in this story comes from the Dallas Police Department.