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Security guard charged with murder after shooting man at Dallas apartments

Published  April 1, 2019 1:12pm MST
U.S.
FOX 10 Phoenix

DALLAS - A uniformed security officer was charged with murder after shooting and killing a man Sunday night.

Dallas police found the man with a gunshot wound outside the Oasis Apartments on Ledbetter Avenue near Sunnyvale in South Oak Cliff. He later died at the hospital.

Police believe the man was involved in an altercation with a female guard. Other security guards were called in to help.

The security officers went into the man's apartment to confront him. There was a physical struggle that ended up on an upstairs breezeway.

As the security officers tried to subdue the man, police said Security Officer Vincent Hobbs shot him.

The 32-year-old guard was arrested and charged with murder.

The victim has not yet been identified.