Irving police officers responding to a domestic disturbance call in the 300 block of Rolston Road encountered a woman standing in the middle of the street holding a knife and making threats Saturday evening, and after a less-lethal weapon failed to stop her, an officer opened fire, striking her. No officers were hurt, and the woman was taken to a local hospital, where her condition remains unknown.
According to a statement from the Irving Police Dept., officers were dispatched to the scene at approximately 5:50 p.m. yesterday in reference to a domestic disturbance in progress. When officers arrived, they found the woman in the street with the knife and gave her verbal commands, but police say she failed to comply and continued moving toward them. One officer then deployed a less-lethal weapon, but it did not stop her, and she kept advancing toward officers in a threatening manner while still holding the knife, prompting a second officer to fire a duty weapon and strike her. Officers rendered aid at the scene until Irving Fire Department personnel arrived and transported her to a hospital. WFAA independently confirmed the timeline of officers responding around 5 p.m. to the domestic disturbance and encountering the woman threatening them with a knife before the shooting.
Investigation Still in Early Stages
Police say the case, logged as case number 26-16494, is in its very early stages, and no additional information is available at this time. The Irving Police Department said it will conduct both criminal and administrative investigations, standard practice following any officer-involved shooting, while the Dallas County Public Integrity Unit will carry out its own separate review. All three investigations are currently underway, and department officials say no further information will be released for now. Under standard Texas prosecution protocols, officer-involved shootings routinely trigger this kind of dual-track review, with independent oversight bodies like the Public Integrity Unit determining whether criminal charges are warranted, according to the Texas District & County Attorneys Association.
The suspect's identity and precise medical condition have not been released, and it remains unclear what type of less-lethal weapon officers deployed before the shooting. Irving Police Chief Derick Miller has led the department since May 2022, after previously serving as police chief in Carrollton, according to WBAP/KLIF.
A Street With a Troubled History
The 300 block of Rolston Road, anchored by the Villa Valencia Apartments, a garden-style townhome complex built in 1971, has seen a string of serious police calls over the past decade, per Homes.com. In October 2024, 21-year-old Sandra Roman Solorzano was arrested and charged with murder after the fatal stabbing of 24-year-old Alvaro Lozano Ortiz at an apartment complex on the street, as reported by FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth. A decade earlier, in May 2016, 20-year-old Christopher Rubio was charged with capital murder for the double fatal shooting of 19-year-old Elizabeth Adams and 20-year-old James Michael Tew at the same Villa Valencia Apartments, according to FOX 26 Houston. The street has also been the site of a 2018 human trafficking investigation in which Irving police arrested two people in connection with the forced prostitution of an adult woman and a 16-year-old girl.
Part of a Pattern of Recent Force Incidents
Saturday's shooting adds to a series of recent use-of-force incidents involving Irving police. In February, an unidentified male suspect died at a hospital after suffering injuries during a physical altercation with officers following a traffic stop and narcotics arrest attempt at Belt Line Road and Cross Country Trail, WFAA reported at the time. A year before that, in August 2025, an Irving officer shot and injured 25-year-old Arlington Fuentes-Murillo in the 1400 block of North Nursery Road after he allegedly refused commands while brandishing a handgun. And in March 2024, Irving officers fatally shot a man armed with a knife after he drove through a traffic barricade near the President George Bush Turnpike and Las Colinas Boulevard following a vehicle pursuit, according to FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth. Each of those incidents, like Saturday's shooting, triggered the same layered review process now underway on Rolston Road.
