2016 shooting of Dallas police officers
The 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers began on the 7th of July, at about 8:58 in the evening, when an SUV stopped sideways on Lamar Street with its hazard lights blinking. Officers had cleared that street ahead of a protest march, so almost no one was nearby. From behind the vehicle, a gunman began firing at police and protesters gathered on the next street over.
When the night ended, five officers were dead, nine more officers had been wounded, and two civilians had been hit. The gunman was Micah Xavier Johnson, a 25-year-old Army Reserve veteran of the Afghan War. It was the deadliest single incident for American law enforcement since the September 11 attacks.
How did a march that police were guarding turn into a hunt through a college building? What did the gunman's past, and his own words, reveal about why he did it? How did officers end a standoff that left them almost no safe options? And what did a shaken city, and a divided country, do next?
Around 800 protesters took to downtown Dallas that night, and roughly 100 police officers were assigned to watch over them. The march answered the deaths of Alton Sterling, killed by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile, killed by police in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Both men had died only days earlier. Dallas was one of several American cities where protests took place that night.
According to Dallas Police Chief David Brown, between 20 and 30 open-carry gun rights activists joined the march. Some of them wore gas masks, bulletproof vests and fatigues.
Most of what followed happened around El Centro College, a city block made up of several buildings. Main Street runs along its southern edge, and that is where the marchers were walking. Lamar Street, now renamed Botham Jean Boulevard, borders the east side. Elm Street runs along the north.
Before he fired a shot, Johnson is believed to have spoken with three of the officers he later shot. Taking cover at street level, he opened fire on groups of police and protesters on Main Street. Three officers were killed in that first burst of gunfire. At least three more officers and one civilian were wounded. Eleven officers fired back.
The officers could not tell where the shots were coming from. Some rushed to block intersections and, in doing so, stepped into the line of fire.
Johnson then moved north along Lamar Street, where he met Officer Brent Thompson. A civilian filmed the encounter from a hotel balcony. The video shows Johnson, dressed in tactical clothing, reloading his rifle and firing wildly to draw officers toward him. When Thompson approached a corner, the two traded fire, and Thompson took cover behind a concrete pillar. Johnson shot toward one side of the pillar, then ran around to the other side and shot Thompson several times from behind. Thompson was killed.
Wounded in that exchange, Johnson turned toward the glass doors of El Centro College.
At the Lamar Street entrance, Johnson shot out a glass door but could not get through it. Two campus police officers were just inside. Corporal Bryan Shaw was shot in the stomach beneath his bulletproof vest. Officer John Abbott was cut in the legs by flying glass.
Johnson then went around to Elm Street, shot out another glass door, and entered the college unseen. He headed for Building B. Hearing the glass shatter, the wounded Corporal Shaw followed a trail of blood through the building to a stairwell. He and another officer started up and were met by a hail of gunfire from above. Unable to see the shooter, Shaw held his fire and pulled back.
On a mezzanine between the second-floor dining area and the third-floor library, Johnson reached a dead end of windows facing Elm Street. He shot out several of them and fired repeatedly at the officers below. One round struck Sergeant Michael Smith as he stood in front of a 7-Eleven. Smith was killed, and the store's front glass shattered around him.
Officers began pouring into the college. They sealed off escape routes and evacuated students and teachers, including people on the floor directly above Johnson, down a different stairwell.
Dallas SWAT officers led by Sergeant Thomas Sible climbed to the second floor near the library. They found Johnson behind a corner, firing off and on. He had taken a position among offices and the school's computer servers, and only two doors led to him. At least 200 shots were believed to have been fired there by Johnson and the SWAT officers.
Between his corner and the SWAT team lay a hallway about 30 ft long, and the officers would spend hours on the other side of it.
Senior Corporal Larry Gordon, a SWAT negotiator, spent hours trying to talk Johnson into surrendering. Body camera video of the effort was released in July 2021 after an open records request. Officers later told the station WFAA that they negotiated because Johnson was too heavily armed to charge. They also knew they could not wait forever, since he might step out and shoot at any moment.
When officers first cornered him in the hallway, Johnson shouted "black supremacy! Black liberation!" and began firing. He later said he would speak only with black officers and kept calling himself "X". When Gordon told him he was black, Johnson first answered, "No way." He told Gordon he had served overseas in the military.
As talks fell apart, Johnson said, "The talking is over. It's time for a revolution, brother. If you are my brother, turn your weapon on those behind you." He insisted he had acted alone and belonged to no group. He also claimed to have planted bombs across the city. Later searches of downtown Dallas found no sign of explosives.
Chief Brown described Johnson as delusional. Police had negotiated for about two hours, Brown said, and Johnson "just basically lied to us, playing games, laughing at us, singing". Johnson also asked how many officers he had killed and said he wanted to kill more. Gordon saw it differently. He said Johnson "wasn't delusional" and was "very lucid, seemed to be very sane and very in control".
Dallas police had faced a standoff like this once before. On the 13th of June 2015, at about 12:30 in the morning, James Lance Boulware parked an armored van in front of police headquarters in the Cedars neighborhood. He opened fire with what looked like a semi-automatic rifle. He later fled to Hutchins, Texas, and a standoff began in a Jack in the Box parking lot. SWAT officers used a .50-caliber rifle to disable the van's engine block, and a sniper then killed him. No officers or civilians were hurt.
Banes said the team considered a .50-caliber rifle again in 2016. But Boulware had stayed inside a vehicle, while Johnson was in a populated college with thin Sheetrock walls. The team judged that approach too dangerous. Rappelling down the building and breaking through the ceiling with explosives were also ruled out, because of the risk to the officers who would carry them out.
The plan they chose used a bomb disposal robot, the Remotec ANDROS Mark V-A1, loaded with about 1 lb of C-4 explosive. The idea was to roll it against a wall facing Johnson and detonate it. The charge went off as intended at about 2:30 in the morning and killed him instantly. It was the first time American police had used a robot to kill a suspect. The robot's arm was damaged in the blast, but the machine still worked.
P. W. Singer, a robotics expert at the New America Foundation, said it was the first police use of a robot for lethal force that he knew of. Seth Stoughton, an assistant professor of law at the University of South Carolina, called it "a new horizon for police technology". He believed the police were justified because Johnson was an imminent threat. In his words, "The circumstances that justify lethal force justify lethal force in essentially every form."
Stoughton added that he knew of no police department keeping on hand anything intended to be used as a weaponized explosive.
Nine officers were wounded that night. Four were from the Dallas Police Department, three were from Dallas Area Rapid Transit, known as DART, and two were from El Centro College. Seven of them were treated at Parkland Memorial Hospital, and two underwent surgery. One of the two wounded civilians was shot in the back of the leg, which broke her tibia.
Four Dallas police officers and one DART officer died. Senior Corporal Lorne Ahrens was 48. He had served with the department since 2002, after working for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department from 1991 to 2002.
Officer Michael Krol was 40 and had been with Dallas police since 2003. Sergeant Michael Smith was 55, a former Army Ranger who had joined the department in 1989.
Officer Brent Thompson of DART was 43, a former enlisted Marine who had been with the transit agency since 2007. He was the first DART officer killed in the line of duty since the agency began in 1989.
The fifth was Officer Patricio "Patrick" Zamarripa, 32, a former Navy sailor and Iraq War veteran. He had joined Dallas police in 2010.
Micah Xavier Johnson was born in Magee, Mississippi, on the 2nd of July 1991 and raised in Mesquite, Texas. His parents divorced when he was four. During a Veterans Affairs visit on the 15th of August 2014, he called his childhood "stressful". The report redacted the details.
At 17, Johnson transferred to John Horn High School and joined its Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program. He struggled in class and graduated in 2009 with a 1.98 grade-point average, ranked 430 out of 453 students. In the spring of 2011 he enrolled in four courses at Richland College and completed none of them.
Johnson joined the U.S. Army Reserve right after high school. He served from March 2009 to April 2015 as a 12W carpentry and masonry specialist. Justin Garner, a high-school classmate who later served in his unit, said Johnson lacked some required skills, marksmanship among them. A squad leader who trained him in 2009 and 2010 called him "klutzy", "goofy sometimes" and "a nice guy", but also quiet and unmotivated. Other soldiers described him as openly religious and as a loner who sometimes ate lunch alone in a vehicle.
In September 2013 Johnson was activated at the rank of private first class. From November 2013 to July 2014 he deployed to Afghanistan with the 420th Engineer Brigade. His service earned him medals including the Afghanistan Campaign Medal with campaign star and the NATO Medal.
On the 1st of May 2014, during that deployment, a female soldier accused him of sexual harassment. She sought a protective order and said he needed mental health counseling. Four pairs of her underwear had gone missing from her laundry bag. An inspection of soldiers' rooms turned up one pair in Johnson's quarters, and another soldier found the other three in his pocket. Johnson ran off and tried to throw them in a dumpster, then lied about where they came from. Investigators later found that the incident itself did not meet the Army's definition of harassment, but his suggestive comments to her did.
His platoon sergeant recommended taking away his weapon, believing he was a threat. Another Army official later called that step unusual, because Johnson did not seem agitated. He was placed under 24-hour escort, which was reportedly a shameful and ostracizing experience. On the 3rd of May he was moved to Bagram Airfield. On the 14th of May, soldiers packing his belongings found an unauthorized 40mm grenade, a .50-caliber round and another soldier's prescription medication in his sleeping bag.
The Army began proceedings toward an "other than honorable" discharge. Johnson's military lawyer called that "highly unusual", since written reprimands normally come first and the case rested on one allegation. The lawyer apparently did not know about the grenade. On his advice, Johnson waived his hearing in exchange for a general discharge under honorable conditions. He was honorably discharged in September 2014, apparently because of an Army error. He stayed in the Individual Ready Reserve, which meant he could be recalled.
Veterans Health Administration documents released in August 2016 showed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after his return from Afghanistan. He was never formally diagnosed, and doctors saw no serious risk. He had sought treatment for anxiety, depression and hallucinations. He described nightmares about soldiers dying in explosions, hearing voices and mortars, and panic attacks a few times each week. One attack, at a Wal-Mart, required a police response.
Mesquite police had documented an earlier episode in January 2011. Johnson walked into their station visibly upset, bouncing from side to side. He said a female friend had lied to him and that he had nowhere else to go. He declined mental health treatment, and a friend from his Army Reserve unit eventually picked him up.
Chief Brown said Johnson was furious about recent police shootings of black men and "stated he wanted to kill white people, especially officers". Johnson also told negotiators he was angry about Black Lives Matter. Police found no direct ties between him and the protesters. They believed he had planned the attack for some time and acted alone.
A friend said Johnson had anger management problems and often rewatched videos of the 1991 police beating of Rodney King. A former coworker described him as always distrustful of police. Another said he seemed "very affected" by the recent shootings.
Investigators who combed his online activity found that he had "liked" Facebook pages of the New Black Panther Party, the Nation of Islam and the Black Riders Liberation Party. The Southern Poverty Law Center lists all three as hate groups. Quanell X, a leader of the New Black Panther Party, said Johnson had belonged to its Houston chapter for about six months, years earlier. He said Johnson was asked to leave for breaking the chain of command and for dangerous rhetoric, such as asking why the party had not bought more weapons and ammunition. A national leader of the party later said Johnson was never a member.
Not every account fits that picture. People who knew him in the Army said he showed little interest in racial injustice or in the killing of Trayvon Martin. His parents said he had once been extroverted and patriotic, and wanted to become a police officer. After his discharge, they said, he became disillusioned, reclusive and resentful of the U.S. government. A fellow soldier recalled a small breakdown once news of the harassment accusation spread and his friends began to drift away.
Senior Corporal Gordon offered his own reading after the standoff. "I think he was angry...and he felt powerless, I think," Gordon said.
Brown said Johnson had been planning an attack before the deaths of Sterling and Castile. Those killings were the trigger, and the Dallas protest was an opportunity. On the 16th of June, Johnson had offered to work security at an anti-Donald Trump rally led by Reverend Peter Johnson. He insisted on bringing a gun, so the reverend declined.
Johnson's everyday life looked ordinary on paper. He had worked at a Jimmy John's sandwich shop from 2010 and as a quality assurance worker at a Garland, Texas, truck plant from 2012. At the time of his death he was an in-home caregiver for his mentally disabled adult brother. Both men lived with their mother.
Police and a neighbor said Johnson practiced military exercises in his backyard. In 2014 he took classes at a private self-defense school that advertises tactics such as shooting on the move, meant to keep a gunman's location uncertain. The school's founder, Justin Everman, said Johnson took only self-defense courses. Investigators believed he began stockpiling weapons around that time.
When police reached him, Johnson was lying beside a rifle, two handguns, extra rifle magazines and a bag of supplies. Officers had found him by following the blood he left climbing to the second floor. In a stairwell he had scrawled the letters "RB" and other messages in his own blood. Police never concluded whether they meant anything.
Reports conflicted on his rifle. Clay Jenkins, the Dallas County chief executive, said it was an SKS. News reports citing unnamed officials said it was an Izhmash-Saiga 5.45mm, a variant of the AK-74. A man told the New York Daily News he sold Johnson an AK-74 pattern rifle in a Target parking lot in November 2014. CNN reported that the handguns were a Glock 19 Gen4 and a Fraser .25-caliber. The FBI said Johnson wore ballistic body armor with hard plates.
Detectives searched his family home the day after the shooting. They recovered bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, two rifles, ammunition, and a "personal journal of combat tactics". Brown said the journal contained rambling that was hard to decipher. He also said Johnson had enough explosive material to cause "devastating effects" across North Texas. On the 18th of July, two officials contradicted that claim. They said only small amounts of Tannerite and acetone had been found.
In the first hours, officials said two or more snipers had carried out the attack. The confusion was later blamed on ricocheting bullets and echoing gunshots, and every shot was traced back to Johnson. Three other people were detained. Two had been seen carrying camouflage bags away from Lamar Street and were stopped after a six-mile chase. All three turned out to be fleeing protesters who were armed or carrying ammunition gear.
One of them had joined the march in a camouflage T-shirt, openly carrying an unloaded AR-15. The Dallas Police Department tweeted his photo, called him a suspect, and asked for the public's help. The image spread across social media and national television. The man turned himself in and was released without charge after questioning.
Chief Brown said up to thirty civilians openly carrying rifles had made it harder to identify the gunman. "We don't know who the good guy is versus the bad guy when everyone starts shooting," he said. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said he supported changing state law to restrict the public carrying of rifles and shotguns.
Mike Mata, then president of the Dallas Police Association, raised another issue. He said someone in the chain of command had ordered officers at the protest to skip military-style vests, to avoid looking "militaristic, aggressive". They wore standard-issue kevlar vests instead, which could not stop rifle rounds. Mata told local station KDFW that many wounds were to the chest and lower abdomen, and "those heavy vests would have covered them".
On the 13th of July, Pentagon officials announced that the Army had opened an internal review of Johnson's service. The question was why he received an honorable discharge when an other than honorable one had been under serious consideration. A second review began the next day. An Army official said nothing in his record showed a willingness to commit murder. A heavily redacted report followed on the 29th of July, another report on the 17th of August, and Johnson's personnel files on the 7th of September.
The city turned to mourning and ceremony. A vigil on the 8th of July drew hundreds of people to Thanks-Giving Square. On the 12th of July, an interfaith memorial at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center brought together President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush, with Vice President Joe Biden attending. Obama urged Americans not to despair. "We are not so divided as we seem," he said. Attorney General Loretta Lynch pleaded, "do not let this week precipitate a new normal in this country."
El Centro College canceled classes on the 8th of July. The blast that killed Johnson had also destroyed the school's servers, which delayed reopening. Staff returned on the 20th of July and students the next day. A ceremony called "Reflect and Renew" took place there on the 27th of July.
The Dallas Observer noted similarities between Johnson and Mark Essex, a discharged Navy sailor and Black Panther. Essex attacked white civilians and police officers in New Orleans on the 31st of December 1972 and the 7th of January 1973. Nine people died, including five police officers.
Lawsuits followed. In September 2016, Dallas Sergeant Demetrick Pennie sued 17 people and groups, among them the Nation of Islam, Black Lives Matter and DeRay Mckesson, seeking over $500 million. The case was seen as unlikely to be taken seriously, and the claims against Mckesson and Black Lives Matter were dismissed or withdrawn. In November 2016, Enrique Zamarripa, father of Officer Patrick Zamarripa, sued Black Lives Matter and 13 other defendants for $550 million. Officer Zamarripa's mother, Valerie, said the suit did not reflect her views.
Policing changed too. Neighboring agencies worked more than $800,000 in overtime to help Dallas. Departments across the country began pairing more officers in patrol vehicles and adding security at protests against police. Within twelve days, the Dallas Police Department received 467 job applications, a 344% increase over the 136 it received in June. Dallas set a goal of hiring 549 officers by October 2017, though some officials called it unrealistic.
Many records remain closed. Ballistics reports, autopsies for the victims and the gunman, and the full transcripts of the negotiation audio are still sealed.
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Common questions
How many people were killed and wounded in the Dallas shooting?
Five officers were killed, nine other officers were wounded, and two civilians were wounded. Four of the dead were Dallas police officers and one was a DART officer.
Who was the gunman?
He was Micah Xavier Johnson, a 25-year-old Army Reserve veteran of the Afghan War who had been honorably discharged in September 2014.
How did the standoff with Johnson end?
After hours of negotiation, police used a bomb disposal robot carrying about 1 lb of C-4 explosive. It was detonated at about 2:30 in the morning and killed him instantly.
Why were police using a robot a historic first?
It was the first time American police used a robot to kill a suspect. Law professor Seth Stoughton called it a new horizon for police technology.
What was the protest about?
The march responded to the killings by police of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, which had happened days earlier.
Did investigators find that Johnson belonged to a group?
No. Johnson said he acted alone, and police found no direct ties to Black Lives Matter protesters. A New Black Panther Party leader said he had briefly belonged to the Houston chapter years earlier, while a national leader said he was never a member.
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- 125Mother of slain Dallas officer distances herself from lawsuit against Black Lives MatterClaire Z. Cardona — Dallas Morning News — November 8, 2016
- 126NewsBlack Dallas police officer sues Black Lives Matter on behalf of 'Christians, Jews and Caucasians,' othersTravis M. Andrews — September 21, 2016
- 127NewsLarry Klayman Files Two Lawsuits Accusing Black Defendants of Pushing Race WarSouthern Poverty Law Center — February 7, 2017
- 128A Lawsuit Accuses Black Lives Matter of Inciting a 'War on Police'J. Weston Phippen — The Atlantic — November 8, 2016
- 129NewsCan Black Lives Matter be sued? Federal judge to decideMichael Kunzelman — June 14, 2017
- 130Dallas cop sues social media companies for allegedly helping influence police shooterAndrew O'Reilly — FOX News — January 17, 2017
- 131Twitter, Facebook Blamed In Dallas Police Shooting LawsuitMichelle Casady — Law360 — January 18, 2017
- 132July 7 ambush cost Dallas-area law enforcement more than $800,000 in overtimeNaheed Rajwani — August 31, 2016
- 133MagazineHow America's Police Are Responding to Baton Rouge and DallasJosh Sanburn — July 18, 2016
- 134Dallas police job applications surge after fatal ambush attacksLisa Maria Garza — July 22, 2016
- 135After Deadly Shootings, Dallas Police Recruits Say They're More Committed Than EverChristopher Connelly — August 3, 2016
- 136Dallas wants 549 new cops, but that may not be realisticNaheed Rajwani et al. — August 25, 2016
- 137NewsMeet the Remotec Andros Mark V-A1, the robot that killed the Dallas shooterBrian Fung — July 11, 2016
- 138Lone Gunman Laughed, Sang During Standoff: SourcesTodd L. Davis et al. — KXAS-TV — July 9, 2016
- 139News1 suspect in Dallas shootings diesKMTV — July 8, 2016
- 140NewsHow and why Dallas police decided to use a bomb to end the standoff with lone gunmanRobert Wilonsky — July 10, 2016
- 141Using Robot To Kill Dallas Police Shooting Suspect A 1st, Security Expert SaysBree Fowler — July 8, 2016
- 142Dallas deployment of robot bomb to kill suspect is 'without precedent'Cyrus Farivar — July 8, 2016
- 143Police Used Bomb Disposal Robot to Kill a Dallas Shooting SuspectDave Gershgorn — July 8, 2016
- 144The Dallas Shooting and the Advent of Killer Police RobotsDavid A. Graham — July 7, 2016
- 145Five police officers shot dead in downtown Dallas attackKXAN-TV — July 7, 2016
- 146Texas Lt. Gov. Patrick on Dallas ambush: 'This has to end'Fox News — July 8, 2016
- 147NewsTexas official walks back remark calling Dallas protesters 'hypocrites'Eugene Scott — CNN — July 8, 2016
- 148President Obama Describes Dallas Shootings As 'Vicious, Calculated, Despicable Attack'Alexander Mallin et al. — July 8, 2016
- 149NewsWhy President Obama went right to gun control after five police officers were killed in DallasAaron Blake — July 8, 2016
- 150Police union criticizes Obama shooting response, calls for hate crime investigationLiz Goodwin — Yahoo! News — July 8, 2016
- 151FOP: Justice Needs to Investigate Dallas Shootings as a Hate CrimeFraternal Order of Police — July 8, 2016
- 152Dallas shooting suspect Micah Johnson 'acted alone'July 9, 2016
- 153NewsBlack Lives Matter Activists, Civil Rights Leaders Condemn Dallas AmbushAri Mason — NBC New York — July 8, 2016
- 154Memorial Service for Slain Dallas Police OfficersC-SPAN — July 12, 2016
- 156NewsObama Tells Mourning Dallas 'We Are Not So Divided'Gardiner Harris et al. — July 11, 2016
- 157Obama lauds Dallas police, city at memorial serviceTrevor Hughes et al. — July 12, 2016
- 158MagazineRead President Obama's Speech From the Dallas Memorial ServiceKatie Reilly — July 12, 2016
- 159US Attorney General Calls for Calm, 'Determined Action' After Dallas AttackMike Levine et al. — July 8, 2016
- 160AG Loretta Lynch says Dallas shootings are "unfathomable tragedy"Reena Flores — July 8, 2016
- 161NewsFirst black Miss Ala. calls Dallas police shooter a 'martyr'Mary Bowerman — July 12, 2016
- 162NewsFormer Miss Alabama on why she called the Dallas shooter a 'martyr'Kait Richmond — CNN — July 13, 2016
- 163NewsFirst Black Miss Alabama Apologizes After Calling Dallas Cop Killer A 'Martyr'Nina Golgowski — July 12, 2016
- 164MagazineFormer Miss Alabama Suspended by TV Station After Calling Dallas Shooter a 'Martyr'Mahita Gajanan — July 12, 2016
- 165NewsFirst black Miss Ala. on leave from TV job after calling Dallas cop-killer a 'martyr'Mary Bowerman — July 12, 2016
- 166NewsThe Bahamas' new U.S. travel advisory: Use 'extreme caution' around policeAaron C. Davis — July 9, 2016
- 167NewsBahamas Issues Travel Advisory to the US Following ShootingsABC News — July 9, 2016