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Mental illness likely played some part in a scenario that led to police officers shooting a man in South Dallas early Saturday, a minute after he fired a shot into the air and ignored orders to stop walking away and drop the gun, according to the police chief.
Police chief Eddie García said Monday during a news conference about the shooting in the 2600 block of Robert B. Cullum Boulevard that it was clear to officers that 53-year-old Kris Green was acting erratically after they responded to calls of a man firing a gun in the intersection and shooting out the window of a nearby parked vehicle. But it isn’t immediately clear if Green, who is in stable condition after being shot in his lower body, was in mental crisis, under the influence of drugs or some combination of the two.
No one else was injured in this shooting, García said. A police investigation is ongoing and the Dallas County district attorney’s office is involved. Green faces accusations of deadly conduct, discharge of a firearm, criminal mischief and possession of methamphetamine, García said.