A pickup truck repeatedly rammed into a Fox News affiliate’s television studio in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday morning, according to police.
Authorities have detained a 34-year-old man who drove the pickup truck, which was filled with leaflets, into the downtown Dallas building housing KDFW Fox 4’s studios at about 6:12 a.m., shattering its windows. He will be charged with criminal mischief.
A man crashed a truck into the side of our building this morning. He jumped out and started ranting. He’s in custody now but the bomb squad is on its way. He left behind a suspicious bag. Most have been evacuated & a few are working to keep the news on air from a secure location. pic.twitter.com/X3UpLbYk85
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) September 5, 2018
“We just saw police running inside and saying, ‘Get to the other side of the building,’” said station reporter Shannon Murray, who was in the building at the time, on the station’s morning show. “It wasn’t clear what the man’s intentions were. He was yelling and trying to show us something.”
The man threw leaflets, scattering them all over the area, placed boxes of paper outside the door of the building, and held handwritten notes up to the window of the station.
A Dallas police spokesperson said the man seemed to be distressed about a shooting involving a police officer, and the leaflets contained of “mostly rambling.”
“He kept yelling, ‘High treason!’” another reporter for the station, Brandon Todd said. “He believed he had been clearly wronged and was trying to get some attention.”
The Dallas Police Department’s bomb squad also investigated a bag the man left near the station.
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