The Mesquite Police Department just released video of a wild shootout that happened between officers and a wanted man that happened on March 14th.
Body cam footage along with surveillance video shows officers attempted to arrest the man outside of a trampoline park.
As officers approach, the suspect is seen pulling a handgun from his backpack & then opens fire on an officer.
That officer returns fire and chases the suspect.
"Officials with the Mesquite Police Department have released video of a shootout that happened between officers and a suspect on March 14.
Officers were called to an apartment complex in the 3700 block of Gus Thomasson Road to look into some type of altercation. Once at the complex — around 4:00 p.m. — police were told by a resident that a man he didn’t know came into his apartment, while pointing a gun at him, and demanded to know the whereabouts of a family member.
The suspect, later identified as Ladarious Davis, left before police arrived and officers were unable to find him. Just after 8:30 p.m. as officers were wrapping up, someone told officers were that the suspect was in the parking lot of Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park on LBJ Freeway.”
Davis was reported shot in the neck. He was arrested at the scene."
No officers were injured in the shooting.