On Sunday, Duncanville police reacted to a reported shooting on the 100 block of E. Highway 67 Service Road. Within moments of the call placed at approximately 7:41 PM, officers reached the location only to find neither victim nor assailant in sight, a phenomenon all too familiar in the ebb and flow of urban violence.
Sometime later, a shooting victim connected to this incident was found when law enforcement was called to a house in DeSoto at 7:57 PM, the victim, an adult male, bore the brunt of multiple bullet wounds but lived to tell the tale, subsequent transportation to Methodist Dallas Medical Center ensured his injuries were kept from crossing that most final of thresholds, per the Duncanville Police Department.
The apparent randomness, a traffic light pause becomes a life-altering horror – the victim recounted a narrative in which two unidentified males emerged from obscurity, behind his car, their approach masked not just by the anonymity of twilight but by literal masks and hoodies, with one firing into the vehicle, thus igniting a getaway marred by the sounds of gunfire in retreat.
Descriptions of the suspects have been circulated with one noted as a young Black male with a slender build, clad in black pants, a white hoodie, and a blue surgical mask, and the other simply as a young Black male, slender as well; a search was conducted thoroughly as officers scoured the nearby vicinity, yet for all their efforts the suspects remained as phantoms beyond grasp as the night's shadows.
Duncanville officials are pressing the community for vigilance, the need for eyes wide open at the standstills in traffic, and lights that may signal more than a mere pause in travel, and anyone with information on the incident is implored to contact the Duncanville Police at 972-223-6111, extension 4.
