Dallas police say officers shot and killed a man they say pulled out a fake gun as they investigated a report of an armed man breaking into an apartment Saturday.
During a news conference Tuesday, Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said police were called at about 8:20 p.m. Saturday about a person with a gun trying to break into a 2nd-floor apartment in the 3100 block of Norwalk Avenue.
Witnesses reported seeing a man knocking on a door and attempting to open it. They said he then climbed onto the second-floor balcony and tried to open a sliding glass door. Witnesses then reported he went back to the front door and began banging on the door with a handgun.
Garcia released body camera videos that showed the officers walking around an apartment building, asking residents if they'd seen a man with a gun. After walking to the other side of the building, they spotted a man on the second floor matching the witness's description. Officers yelled to the man in English, "Show me your hands. Put your hands up." The officers then repeatedly said "manos" in Spanish, which means "hands."
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Garcia said the man then reached for his waistband and pulled out what looked like a gun, and the officers opened fire. The man then collapsed on the second-floor walkway.
The officers provided first aid, but the man, identified as 26-year-old Domingo Pop-Pan, died at the scene. No other injuries were reported in connection with the shooting, police said.
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After releasing the body camera video, Garcia said officers learned after the shooting that the gun Pop-Pan was holding was a "replica firearm" that looked very real.
"Absolutely it looks real," Garcia said. "It looked real to the officers."
"Those officers, one, didn't know that was a replica firearm. They thought it was a real firearm, and you heard [in the video], this is not the outcome that my men and women want. You can't fake that," Garcia said. "So, yeah, it's tough on them whether they went to the services or not that morning. It was definitely a rough day."
Garcia was referencing the memorial service for Dallas police officer Darron Burks, which was held earlier in the day. Burks was shot and killed last week in what Garcia described as an "execution" by a "coward."
Pop-Pan, police said Tuesday afternoon, had no known criminal history.
The shooting is the sixth involving a Dallas police officer this year, Garcia said.
The police department said the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office and Office of Community Police Oversight were notified and responded to the scene of the shooting.
The shooting is still under investigation.
Editor's note: The Dallas Police Department initially identified the man carrying the fake gun as Domingo Chun and said he had a criminal history, including aggravated assault. They have since said they provided the wrong identification and then identified the man killed as Domingo Pop-Pan and said he had no criminal history.
Dallas police also initially reported the man pulled a gun on the officers. Dallas police said on Tuesday that the gun was a replica firearm and not a real gun.
