Fort Worth Police Chief Neil Noakes shared videos and other details Monday of a chase and shootout with a man who ended up shooting himself in the head.
At about 9:10 p.m. on Dec. 12, Fort Worth police officers were called to a burglary alarm call on the 700 block of North Beach Street. Noakes said officers were close by and arrived within a minute and observed an adult white man with a backpack on the property.
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Officers detained the man and identified him as 35-year-old Shane Miller. While speaking with him, he took off running and officers pursued him on foot.
Noakes said during the chase one officer used a stun gun on Miller but that it was ineffective. Miller, police said, then drew a gun from his waistband and turned toward the officers, firing twice.
One of the officers fell to the ground while the second fired several shots in return. Miller continued running as four officers chased him on foot. Police said Miller kept firing toward the officers and that three officers fired in his direction at various points throughout the chase.
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Police lost sight of Miller near an overpass at N. Beach and Texas 121. Several of the officers returned to their vehicles to continue searching by car. As officers went to his last known location, he was recorded on one of the department's pole-mounted cameras crossing a service road on the north side by 121 and walking toward a McDonald's.
"While still holding the handgun, Miller tripped on a storm drain and fell to the sidewalk. He then sat up and immediately shot himself in the head, falling to the ground," police said in a statement. "Approximately 60 seconds later, officers located the suspect where he was lying, began assessing him, and attempting to render aid."
Miller was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Officers found a handgun and multiple loaded handgun magazines where Miller fell.
No other injuries related to the exchange of gunfire were reported.
Fort Worth Police said the incident is being investigated by the department's Major Case Unit and Internal Affairs Unit and the completed investigation will be forwarded to the Tarrant County District Attorney's Office for review, as is standard in these cases.
