The Dallas Police Department tweeted a picture of a “suspect” late Thursday in the shootings that killed four officers and wounded seven others. The man turned himself in a short time later.
Tami Carr, an executive producer for CBS Dallas, tweeted around 2:30 a.m. EDT Friday that the man in the photograph had been released by police custody.
“This man, once named a person of interest, was just released from police custody,” she wrote, alongside the original image released by police.
“This is one of our suspects. Please help us find him!” the initial Dallas police tweet read.
In a subsequent tweet early Friday that also reported the death of a fourth officer, police revealed that the man had turned himself in.
“The person of interest whose picture was circulated just turned himself in,” the tweet read.
Tami Carr, an executive producer for CBS Dallas, tweeted around 2:30 a.m. EDT that the man in the photograph had been released by police custody.
“This man, once named a person of interest, was just released from police custody,” she tweeted, alongside the image released by police.
Protest organizer Cory Hughes earlier identified the man in the photo as his “little brother” Mark and denied that Mark was involved in the shootings, CBS News reported.
Cory Hughes said Mark was marching with an unloaded gun and that he turned the gun over to police immediately after shots rang out.
• Jay LeBlanc can be reached at jleblanc@washingtontimes.com.
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