Dallas Security Guard Charged With Murder: Police

A security guard has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a man Sunday night in East Oak Cliff, police say.

According to police, a man had gotten into an altercation with another security guard at about 10:30 at the Oasis Apartments, located in the 2700 block of East Ledbetter Drive. Additional security officers responded to the location and confronted the man inside an upstairs apartment.

Police said the confrontation spilled into the upstairs breezeway, where Vincent Hobbs, a 32-year-old security guard, shot the man in the chest.

Hobbs was arrested and charged with murder. He remains in the Dallas County Jail as of this writing.

The identity of the deceased has not been released.

The Dallas police Homicide Unit, Public Integrity Unit and the district attorney's office are investigating the shooting.

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